On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:31:34PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > REMAINING QUESTIONS: > > > > Perhaps the administration tool needn't provide a method for > > changing default options at all? After all, the applications will > > be remembering their job settings between prints. > > ROTFL. > 1. No they won't, at least not all of them and not consistently > 2. Some settings are job-specific and should *not* be remembered > 3. Some apps won't be able to change settings so you'll need to to it at > the print queue level Fair points. > > 2.5. Page size as a special case > > --------------------------- > > > > When adding a new queue for an automatically detected printer, an > > appropriate default page size should be chosen based on the system > > locale. > > > > CUPS will already do this for us when a new queue is created, so there > > is no action to be taken. > > Unless the RH/Fedora tools have been fouling-up cups, it has always been > defaulting to Letter in my experience What I mean by 'CUPS will already do this for us' is this: [root@cyberelk ~]# zgrep DefaultPageSize /usr/share/cups/model/deskjet.ppd.gz *DefaultPageSize: Letter [root@cyberelk ~]# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test lpadmin: delete-printer failed: client-error-not-found [root@cyberelk ~]# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -m deskjet.ppd.gz [root@cyberelk ~]# zgrep DefaultPageSize /etc/cups/ppd/test.ppd *DefaultPageSize: A4 [root@cyberelk ~]# grep LANG /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" [root@cyberelk ~]# rpm -q cups cups-1.1.23-15.4 CUPS knows to adjust the "PageSize" PPD option based on your locale when a queue is added using the IPP interface. (I'll reply to the other points in a separate message.) Tim. */
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