Bug 116998
Summary: | Can some of ESR's complaints be addressed? | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Aleksey Nogin <aleksey> |
Component: | system-config-printer | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | me, michel.salim, mitr, ngaywood |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html | ||
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Fixed In Version: | FC6 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2007-05-11 12:16:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 90946 | ||
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Description
Aleksey Nogin
2004-02-27 08:00:18 UTC
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? 'Sharing' as in, using Samba to share the printer? The simple way would be to create a raw queue and share that (Windows users get to use vendor-supplied print drivers); would be nice to have sys-conf-print to ask for the vendor CD and copy the files from it. Otherwise, if CUPS' postscript driver is to be installed on the Windows clients, give the option to download and install it automatically (using cupsaddsmb). Unfortunately it's developed using Windows Driver SDK and can't be redistributed, but the print admin should be given the option to point sys-conf-print at another location (on CD, on a network share etc.) Caveat on using Samba raw print queue sharing: recent Winprinters might require each Windows user to be a print admin in order to print. Silly consumer items not meant for multi-user operations, but that's what a lot of users have. No, nothing to do with samba at all. o Default the 'Automatically find remote queues' check-button to on This point is already done actually, and in fact should have been the case since CUPS browsing was added to the config tool. I guess the real problem is the firewall rules (see bug #90946). o Put a 'Sharing...' button on the edit dialog, to bring up the sharing dialog This point is added in system-config-printer-0.6.96-1. o Make queue list window indicate whether each queue is shared or private This point is added in system-config-printer-0.6.98-1. |