On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:20 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: > 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? That's a good question. On a very high level, yes - they are both tray icons dealing with printing. However, gnome-cups-icon actually displays multiple icons, one for each printer. It keeps track of the state of a printer as a whole, not a particular user's jobs. Clicking on an icon brings up a list of jobs on that printer. So in other words, it's very printer-oriented. Eggcups on the other hand *only* keeps track of the user's jobs. It provides no facility for viewing or administering of other jobs. It's very user-job oriented. Also on a technical level, I think eggcups more efficient because it doesn't have to poll all printers all the time in order to keep track of printer state. It only starts polling a particular job on a particular printer when you submit it, and when it completes, it stops polling. For local printers this probably doesn't matter, but in a large organization with a number of networked printers, I think it is important. So they're quite different approaches, both from a user-interface perspective and a technical perspective.
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