I am reading it, and I will follow-up with Norm on documenting. FYI, the link on OpenPrinting site only shows the TOC, which has been hidden temporarily until we can get a working copy of the new guide out there for review and comments.
Look for a draft PDF early '07 at the same location. Nita Norm Jacobs wrote On 11/28/06 20:56,: >Lars Tunkrans wrote: > > >>This is not documented in solaris documentation. >>There is one snippet of this stuff on bigadmin >>http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/duplex_printing.html >> >> so obviously there is a lot of non documented features here. >> >> Can this documentation please be added to Solaris 10 update 3 or 4 & >> Nevada. >> >> >> >> >Yes, it can be added to the docs. I will let our tech writer know (if >she isn't reading this already). >We are working on making significant improvements to the printing >related parts of the Answerbook. >Our writer is starting to put together bits at >http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/Documentation/Guide/ >I am certain that any and all comments or suggestions will be happily taken. > > >> Then again, do you expect a nontechnical user of staroffice to learn >> this stuff ? >> The printer GUI dialouges in staroffice and Solaris needs much >> improvement >> before a USER ( non sysadmin ) will be able to manage even his/her own >> printqueue >> >> >> >As for making it easier to use, that is a work in progress. There is >work going on to improve access to printer capabilities data (PPD files >for now) and better integrate it with a hopefully shrinking set of >printing dialogs in use by GUI applications. Gnome 2.16 integrated in >Nevada build 53 along with a new GTK+, which includes a common printing >dialog for applications to use. Nevada buil 54 will include basic >support for this dialog to use a standard printing API to interact with >the print service. From there, we expect to improve the data accessible >to the printing dialog so that it can provide a more accurate >representation of the capabilities available from the printer or print >service. > >On the management side of things, we are working toward automatic >printer/queue discovery and automatic queue creation >see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/projects/Presto/ >for more information. The goal is that you simply plug the printer in >and it becomes available for printing and/or you plug the system into >the network and the network printers/queues become available for your use. > > -Norm >_______________________________________________ >printing-discuss mailing list >printing-discuss at opensolaris.org > > -- Nita Heieck x66644/508.938.4088 Technical Writer 1 Network Drive Software Lifecycle Engineering UBUR02-213 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Burlington MA 01824 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/printing-discuss/attachments/20061129/6e2be365/attachment.html>
