Re: [Gnome-print] Print Status an Queues

[Ben Woodard <ben valinux com>]

> I'm looking through the latest gnome-print CVS, and the
> gnome_print_get_status always returns GNOME_PRINTER_INACTIVE.
> 
> I REALLY need printer status and printer queue information, and since it
> seems I might need to implement it, I was wondering if anyone had idas
> on the ideal way in which to do it.  A wrapper for lpq/lprm/lpc would be
> possible, but rather unclean, and would sort-of skip the whole point of
> having gnome-print...
> 
> I'm finding decent documentation hard to come by, so I'm in need of some
> information on how gnome-print interacts with the printer.  I'm using an
> SMB printer (a Windows machine) and even the standard lp* tools don't
> work very well, although I'm capable of printing.  Its just the status
> and queue that doesn't work overly well....
> 
> Sean Middleditch
> 
> 
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The problem is that there is no real interface between the spooler and
the application layer. Several of us have started looking at that
issue very seriously.

As for right now. I can tell you how to find out the status on LPR
based machines.  I am not sure how to do it on LPRng, or CUPS based
machines. As for remote samba printers. I have no idea.

-ben