On Thu, Sep 27, 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > At the moment gnome-cups-manager is used, but it is in need of some > serious love. As an example, printing test pages have been broken for > quite a while (bug 379510). gnome-cups-manager also haven't had any > upstream releases for a long time.
Yes, gnome-cups-manager never was stable code and is completely dead upstream. > Ubuntu seems to have gone with system-config-printer[0] for Gutsy[1] (it > is also already available in Debian). I don't know how the Ubuntu choice was made, but I recall searching how RedHat was doing its printer management and found about their system-config-printer tool; later I recommended Otavio to have a look at it as a replacement for gnome-cups-manager. > One of the drawbacks with system-config-printer is that the UI could use > some polish, and it exposes some of the more arcane aspects of CUPS, > such as classes. On the other hand, it appears to be very actively > developed upstream and has been used in Fedora for some time. Yes, it's the default in Fedora and RedHat distros (and derivatives), so it has a large user base. > So, is there any interest in using system-config-printer by default for > Lenny? Perhaps the Ubuntu folks would have more information on the topic, but I'm really happy that we have a replacement available to us which is more stable and actively maintained. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
