Re: system-config-printer GUI improvements

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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 05:19, Tim Waugh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to implement some of the changes mentioned in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116998 ("Can some
> of ESR's complaints be addressed?").
>
> "Ideas to make it better:
>
>  o Put a 'Sharing...' button on the edit dialog, to bring up the
>  sharing dialog
>
>  o Remove 'CUPS' as an option for queue type, or else put text on that
>  screen saying 'this probably isn't what you want -- instead make sure
>  that browsing is working by ...'
>
>  o Default the 'Automatically find remote queues' check-button to on
>
>  o Make queue list window indicate whether each queue is shared or
>  private
>
>  Others?"

The only thing I can think of is something better for the printer model 
selection (I just wish I had a suggestion rather than just needing something 
better).

If a user is connecting to a real printer then the obvious choice is to 
specify the real printer model.  However, what should be specified if you 
connect to another print queue ... one on a "server" such as I believe that 
esr was trying to do.  I believe that you want to specify a "raw" queue so 
that you only get the printer server actually driving the printer to do any 
convertion.  That is not obvious.  Neither is it obvious as to how to make 
this "better".

>
> Does anyone have good ideas about these points?  For instance, how
> should the queue list window indicate whether each queue is shared?
> Are there some icons I could use/request?  Should I make a text column
> and fill it with 'private'/'shared'?  What about double-clicking in
> that column, should that bring up the sharing dialog?
>
> Is this the right place to ask?

Yes, although you might want to put something on fedora-test-list and/or 
fedora-devel-list for more comments.

On the whole, I believe you are addressing a lot of the issues.  It might take 
a couple of versions to get this complete.
-- 
Gene




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