On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:26 -0300, James Henstridge wrote: > Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > >Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 14:56 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit : > > > > > > > >>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 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 ... > > > > > Does it make sense to use the "active print job watching" feature of > eggcups (the part that Colin is proposing for inclusion) with the > printer management features of gnome-cups-manager? Right, I don't think they conflict conceptually. The long term plan was to merge them, and I think it is still is, just blocking on time from the relevant people. I had also been waiting for the GNOME Session Services stuff to land (if eggcups goes in 2.12 we'll have to patch the default session list or hardcode it in gnome-session); but when I heard Ubuntu may be adopting eggcups I thought there would be value in having it available in the GNOME core so distributors don't have to patch their systems. > It seems that with an appropriately patched CUPS, eggcups should give > more accurate information about the print jobs (since it gets notified > by the print daemon, rather than polling). Well, it does poll, but just not all printers all of the time; it only polls when you've printed something, and only until the job completes. That's the technical result of the design being focused around a particular users' print jobs rather than printers.
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