New system-config-printer
Thomas Taylor
linxt at comcast.net
Thu Jun 22 16:14:42 UTC 2006
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:20, Florian Festi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> FC 6 contains a completely new implemented system-config-printer.
>
> Features are:
> * Directly works on the cups configuration (no more alchemist)
> * enabling/disabling printers
> * Support for all PPD options
> * Support for restrictions between PPD option settings
> * can configure remote cups servers (if they allow remote
> administration)
> * limited configuration of the cups server itself
>
> There also is a new implementation of hal-cups-utils (as the old version
> used the old system-config-printer)
>
> Features are:
> * enable/disable USB printers when attached/removed
> * tries to automatically configure USB printer when first attached
> * ask eggcups for make/model if auto detection failed
>
> As this is brand new code testing is highly appreciated.
>
> Florian Festi
Looks nice but one thing missing from previous version - no print test page.
At least I haven't been able to find it. Maybe the eyes are getting too old.
Tom
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Tom Taylor
Linux user #263467
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