Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 14:56 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit :
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> > 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?
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> 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?

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).

James.