Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 7/20/05, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 debian org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 14:56 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 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 ...

Colin requested that only the job-notification aspect of eggcups be
considered for inclusion in 2.12. 
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-July/msg00252.html).

Elijah