Re: printman and cups

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

> over the last few weeks, I have written a cups backend for printman to
> replace the hacky cups support in the old printman snapshot shipped in
> FC1 and FC2. It is based on libgnomecups. You can take a look at it at
> http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/printman/.
> The page also shows a few UI enhancements done at the same time, e.g
> sortable list views, different icons for local/remote printers and
> Pause/Resume. 

Looks great.

> Unfortunately, I had to extend the printman backend interface a bit,
> in order to deal with the polling done by libgnomecups (which has the
> nice effect that the printer and job lists are dynamically updated, no
> need for manual refresh anymore), and I'm not totally sure that I
> haven't broken the solaris backend in the process, but this can
> certainly be sorted out, if there is interest in merging these patches.

Yeah, I think I'd be keen to see that happen. I just merged a bunch of
patches from bugzilla and didn't a release firstly to make sure printman
didn't become stagnant, and secondly to do a tarball release for JDS -
I'm definitely not planning to be the maintainer. We're currently
shipping the nautilus printers:/// view for JDS Linux, but didn't have
time to port it to Solaris in the short term - I don't think it's a
particularly good long term solution. Some Sun guys have started to look
at printing, so hopefully we can sort out any issues that arise after
the merge as you say.

Glynn