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Prototype automatic printer setup tool for Debian



Per discussion on debian-gtk-gnome, I have put up a working
"printconf" (unrelated to the Red Hat program of the same name) for
sarge and sid (along with a new Foomatic-GUI) at:

deb http://lordsutch.dyndns.org/~quango/printconf/ ./

Just use:
# apt-get install printconf

Currently, it autodetects and sets up print queues for parallel and
USB printers with CUPS.  It goes with the default settings; if the
user wants to customize, they're directed to use Foomatic-GUI or the
CUPS web interface (with the URL given in the debconf question).

Should we decide to use something *other* than CUPS as the default
spooler, all the code is generic enough to work with any other
Foomatic-supported backend too.

I'd appreciate some testing of this by interested parties.  Of course,
to work "out of the box" and be useful to most people it'd probably
have to be pulled in by tasksel in a fairly popular task.  And it'll
eventually want translation, etc.

We'll also probably want to call it something different, so people
won't think it's the same as Red Hat/Fedora/whatever's printconf.
Name suggestions (debprint?  autofoomatic?) welcome.


Chris
-- 
Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/



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