Tim Waugh (twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > For things like cloud printing, where the print server is a hosted > service somewhere out in the Internet, I think the applications should > be talking directly to it (via the print dialog). > > For a plain network printer, where the printer might not be able to > accept the job while it's busy processing others, you might have to > queue the job and retry it later. So if you are doing that as a user > process, how should that work when you log out, and when the machine is > restarted? It waits until you log in again. > Another issue is that the LPD printer protocol requires the client to > connect from a privileged port, so it won't work for that without some > extra hoops. What % of networked printers are using this protocol these days? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
