On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 12:56:43PM -0500, Brent Fox wrote: > What I'd like to have is a module that I could plug into firstboot that > says that a printer has been detected and configured. That would > require us writing some code. If CUPS can get all the detection right > without having user intervention, the the GUI would just involve the > notifying that a printer has been detected and then asking them which > printer they want as the default. The detection is done by either kudzu or redhat-config-printer, and CUPS just does what it is told. Using the foomatic XML database redhat-config-printer can figure out which driver to use and goes ahead to create the queue. It could well be that it knows a printer is there but foomatic comes up empty -- in that case a GUI screen could ask for details. It would be nice in this case to have a mechanism for the user to give us the details we would need to automatically set up a queue for that model in future, but that might be a bit ambitious. > > In the mean time, I could just add support for vendor PPDs in > > redhat-config-printer by just bypassing alchemist altogether, in a > > similar way to how it enables/disables cups-lpd (the tick-box just > > runs chkconfig). Good idea? > > Sounds good to me. Any ideas for what it should look like in terms of widgets? Tim. */
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