On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 18:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > > Does anyone have ideas for how system-config-printer should be > > re-written? > > IMO gnome system tools or something similar are the way forward. a > whole lot of system-config* only takes care of very basic > configuration details. we need better cross distro gui tools A quick glance at gnome-system-tools web page and we see that it doesn't have a printing capplet. Even then I believe that GST isn't the right way to go as a whole since it makes us a lot less flexible in certain ways. Basically I feel we should be looking forward ask ourselves how should a system be configured five years from now. Then again I look at printer configuration from the users perspective where I just want things to work without the user configuring anything. A good sysadmin tool is needed also but it must work seamlessly with the user tools. I have a bunch of ideas and wants for system-config-printer that I will post later. Colin Walters and I were discussing the whole printer mess with Jody from Novell at last years Gnome Summit and we came up with GUP (Grand Unified Printing) which I believe has a CVS module in Gnome but it kind of fizzled from there. Perhaps this is a good time to resurrect it and do all the work upstream. -- John (J5) Palmieri Associate Software Engineer Desktop Group Red Hat, Inc. Blog: http://martianrock.com
