Re: GNOME Printing

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 12/06/04 06:56, Colin Walters wrote:

> Red Hat has been shipping a little icon called "eggcups" in Fedora that
> catches a D-BUS signal from the (patched) local cupsd, and causes a
> notification icon to display.  When you click on it, it shows the
> printer browser.
>
> We decided that instead, it should show a list of your print jobs.  Our
> approach was to extend the D-BUS patch for cupsd a lot, and give the
> system enough information to track user jobs.  This also entailed
> basically rewriting eggcups from scratch.
>
> It all basically works now - you can start a job, and the icon appears. 
> When all your active jobs are complete, the icon greys out.
>  
How well does this handle remote printers?  In many situations, there 
won't be any local printers set up in CUPS -- the only printers visible 
will be those that CUPS discovers on the network.

This is quite a common situation in larger deployments, and for laptops 
(just install CUPS, and you can print to whatever printer is on the 
network you are currently connected to).  Does your code simply not 
provide a notification in this case, or appear as a print job that never 
completes?

James.

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