Hi > > A quick glance at gnome-system-tools web page and we > see that it doesn't > have a printing capplet. it doesnt. since a rewrite is planned, we could use gst framework for the new tool. 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. can you expand on that? 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. yep. upstream cross distro tools was the kind of approach I was talking about ===== Regards Rahul Sundaram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
