Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 15:36 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 �4:56 +0200, Murray Cumming a �it :
> 
> > So this is what gives me the printer icon in the notification tray in
> > fedora? Ubuntu has something similar? That's gnome-cups-icon, right?
> > What's the story/comparison there?
> 
> Right, Ubuntu uses gnome-cups-manager which has gnome-cups-icon to do
> this. gnome-cups-manager also has an UI which make possible to configure
> whatever printer you want, eggcups has not such feature (it autodetects
> USB printers but if you have a smb 

Do you mean a networked printer? Is eggcups useless with networked
printers?

> or a lp printer you are screwed).
> Which means that some people will probably install both (Ubuntu will not
> drop gnome-cups-manager by example) and get duplicated features ...

Is it conceivable and desired that eggcups would gain this feature, and
therefore make gnome-cups-manager obsolete?
 
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