Re: Grand Unified Printing

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 17:54 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:03:24PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > 
> > The general thought seemed to be that we should create a new CVS module.
> > I half-jokingly suggested calling it gup, for Grand Unified Printing,
> > but people seemed to like it.  However the gup is also the abbreviation
> > for the GNOME Usability Project, but they don't have a CVS module.  Do
> > we care about this?
> 
> How about 'gups' which makes for a cute play on cups while we're at
> it.

Ooh, nice!  I like it.

> > Jody brought up a while ago that gnome-cups-add is needed when we can't
> > autodetect printers.  The plan is to merge that into an "Add Printer" in
> > the print dialog, right?
> 
> Yes and no.  gnome-cups-add has basicly boiled down to two widgets
> now.
>     - driver selector
>     - connection selector (eg smb browsing)

Do you think it might be possible to autodetect SMB printers and add
them to the list?  At least ones with no password?

> It seems like a good plan.  I'd also like to move libgnomecups into
> libgnomeprint. 

Ok.  We do have the patch I sent from a while back as a starting point,
if it doesn't already work.

> Tell me when you folk are ready for the next round of development
> and we can do a gnomeprint-2.8.1, and branch.

FC3 is pretty much done now, so I think we're ready.