Re: [Openicc] d-bus in CUPS server?

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku b gmx de>]

Am 14.01.11, 11:04 -0000 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On 14 January 2011 10:57, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku b gmx de> wrote:
> > cupsdRegisterColorProfiles() appers to be acting in
> > server side code. So the desktop d-bus messages are supposed to
> > hook really into CUPS server?
>
> No. The session talks to colord, and cups talks to colord. cups only
> needs to talk to a system activated well known system bus name, and
> we're assuming both colord and cups are trusted. We only assume the
> session is hostile, as if you have hostile code running as uid 0 you
> have bigger problems than what color comes out of the printer.

lpr and root fiddling, which users profiles to choose from?

> I've got a bit architecture plan on a whiteboard in my office, which
> I'll be uploading either as ascii art or an svg in the near future.

You might come up with specific use cases first. Currently I see only 
"print through profile" adressed without an idea how to create that 
profile and some more open questions (see above).


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org