On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Tim Waugh wrote: > One thing I'd like to get done for Fedora Core 2 is the ability for > redhat-config-printer to accept a manufacturer's PPD file and just use > it. It is incredibly easy to configure CUPS for this. > > The alternative is to find a replacement for redhat-config-printer > that *does* configure CUPS directly, and there are several candidates > I think. Whichever one is chosen would have to be adapted to be a > drop-in replacement. Kudzu likes to be able to automatically > configure print queues, for instance, and it would be nice not to make > the graphical interface any worse. And of course the text mode > interface would most likely disappear altogether. One question. If the test mode interface goes away how would you configure a printer on a system without X?? Please do not return us to the days where if we need printing we need X. ...............Tom