Re: new module: eggcups

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:00, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As discussed last month on d-d-l and here on g-p-l, Matthias Clasen and
> I have been working on improving the little "eggcups" program that Red
> Hat has shipped for the last few releases.  I've now imported it into
> the GNOME CVS, module "eggcups".
> 
> Just to recap, the original purpose of eggcups was to sit around and
> wait for a D-BUS broadcast from the local CUPS daemon that said the
> printer queue had changed.  When you clicked on the icon, you got a
> printer browser, and clicking on an individual printer you could see all
> of the jobs on that printer.

So eggcups is functionally equivalent to gnome-cups-icon, the
notification-area part of gnome-cups-manager, but it works via D-BUS
instead of through (presumably, I'm guessing this is what g-c-i does)
polling. Is that right?

Thanks,

--
Andrew