Re: Gnome-print usage
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:37:06 +0000, "Ross Burton" <ross@burtonini.com>
said:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:33, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > Agreed abou Desktop prefs->System - its not clear at all. a System
> > Setting entry after Desktop Preferences sounds clear and logical. I'l try
> > and have a look at doing this if alioth comes alive agin.
>
> Red Hat do this, so we could still their small patch.
ok. should i be looking in the redhat patches to gnome-vfs?
> > > If you are going to use CUPS, then you could apply the Ximian Desktop 2
> > > patches to libgnomeprint, which make the print dialogs a fair bit nicer
> > > (but assume that CUPS is being used). IIRC, this is one of the extra
> > > options.
> >
> > Umm, I check out patches.ximian.com, biut only found one minor
> > localisation patch again gnome-print. Should i be looking elsewhere?
>
> Hm, I thought they had patched libgnomeprintui.
according to patches.ximian.com, they 'dont patch libgnomeprintui'. I'll
get in contact with Jody Goldberg. Maybe they're already all in gnome
2.6
> > > > 2) Addition of ability to install ppd from a driver disk in
> > > > gnome-cups-manager
> > >
> > > You'd need to aquire root access for this somehow -- as far as I know
> > > gnome-cups-manager can run as a normal user as it talks to CUPS to do
> > > the work, which can become root.
> >
> > gnome-cups-manager already askes the user for a root password when it
> > needs it (e.g. adding a new printer)
>
> I had always assumed it was simply used as the username/password when
> talking to CUPS (which needs the root password), and gnome-cups-manager
> itself didn't actually acquire root rights.
ah, could be. I'll have a look. Would it be a bad thing to ask the user
for root, if he uses this option? Eventaully I hpoe to take a look at all
the actions that need root, and see what the best options are for making
these actions a capability-based system to allow syadmins to cleanly
specify user capabilitys. But tahts a *loong* way off...
> > > > 3) Panel application for printer status and queue management
> > >
> > > As Sebastien pointed out, gnome-cups-manager comes with this.
> >
> > Yeah. I finally figures that i needed a notification tray to see it..
> > (doh). It would be good if we can make gnome-cups-manager check that the
> > user has a notification tray and to set gnome-cups-icon to load on gnome
> > startup. Also would be nice to provide a method for the user to open the
> > queue window even if its empty.
>
> Sadly, adding stuff to the session is not possible without running it at
> some point.
Why? (apologies for loaded question, but seriously, what limits session
changes to happening at runtime?)
Thanks
Rob Taylor
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