Calum Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:23 +0100, gheet wrote: > >> Current state of things: >> >> There are two printing related apps according to the current ui spec >> o One under Launch-> Administration and >> o The other Launch->Applications->System Tools >> >> First of these is really a sys admin tool to manage print queues, >> the second one is a user tool to set default print queue and manage >> print jobs. The first one is a Java Swing app and the second one is a >> GNOME app. > > This is just off the top of my head, but IMHO we ideally shouldn't need > both of these menu entries; the print queue monitor should probably just > be enhanced to allow you to add and remove printers as well. In the > interim I guess that could be done just by firing up the existing Java > app as required (after prompting for an admin password, if necessary), > although that's obviously kind of a sucky way to do it. > > We could perhaps even get rid of the proposed menu entry for spadmin > (the Star/OpenOffice printer config tool) too, by making the print queue > monitor the entry point for that as well.
we still have that Star/OpenOffice Printer config tool! I thought OpenOffice 2.0/StarOffice 8 has been made CUPS compatible and does not needs its own directory to obtain PPD files. I guess this is still true for OO 1.x and SO 7. This is something we may or may not have to worry about depending on the timing. I say for OpenSolaris, we should use OO 2.0 and upwards :) -Ghee > > Cheeri, > Calum. >
