On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:08, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:49 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:06:06PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:05:14PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > > The remaining design would be the sysadmin UI, primarily for > > > > configuring a print *server*. There's a general problem here that we > > > > need to define > > > > > > Don't forget an easy way to distribute configurations to client > > > systems. > > > > That certainly was important before we switched to CUPS, but is it > > now? Doesn't browsing solve that problem? > > it would be nice if there was a zeroconf (or whatever that is called > this week) thing that advertized a "I have the master printer list for > cups HERE". All clients would then, without sysadmin work, use this > list. List would include prefered printer etc etc There needs to be a way to have some kind of favourite printers, always seeing a list with several hundred printers in corporate environment would be far from user friendly. And I think many people are not in the lucky situation to have a CUPS print server. -- http://LinuxWiki.org/RonnyBuchmann
