Unless you are planning on modifying gvm to deal with the additional
D-BUS messages that we are looking to add for event notification, I
would say that this should become yet another component of your desktop
session.
-Norm
Halton Huo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here I want to get some input about how to start ospm-applet. There
> are two way I can see for the time bing:
>
> Solution #1: Use gnome-volume-properties
> gnome-volume-properties has a printer tab to config when a new printer
> is plugged, start a program, here we can point it to ospm-applet by
> default.
>
> Solution #2: Start ospm-applet as daemon
> That is start together with gnome-session, does not show up until
> there is printer related thing happens, including local printer
> plug/unplug, printing job event, etc. We could have a gconf key to
> tell ospm-applet start with gnome-session or not. If we want to
> ospm-applet as a daemon, this key's default need to be true by default.
>
>
> Here is some advantages and disadvantages between the two solutions:
>
>
> Solution #1: Use gnome-volume-properties Solution #2: Start
> ospm-applet as daemon
> Advantages: 1. Easiest way to let ospm-applet run, need not change
> much on current gnome code. 1. Daemon can get all printing event,
> automaticly almost
> Disadvantages 1. won't catch any printing event execpt printer plug,
> not automaticlly
> 2. if plug more than one printer, the program will be called multiple
> times 1. For users who does not use printer frequently, it's resource
> waste
> 2. Need patch gnome-session code.
>
>
> Personally, I prefer the #2 one. Any thought or idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Halton.
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