Hi Joel, Thanks for raising this! I believe Norm has answered most of your queries below.
Starting any ipp service causes gdm start up is a bug. You can log a bug against jds/gnome/session if you wish, I can see that being assigned to the appropriate product. I find CUPS interesting while was putting together the Linux version of JDS. There are good GUI support for example, like the gnome-cups-manager which essentailly provides one GUI to do what currently gnome-dtprintinfo and solaris-print-manager does. Of course you also got the web based interface as part of CUPS. There is one thing that was really bad is that CUPS store your password in plain text file and doesn't integrate with your LDAP/NIS that well. One thing which I would like see working towards with is to see whether when a user want to add access to a print queue that he/she can do it without having the root password or print privileges. That would simplify many thing as I believe. -Ghee Joel Buckley wrote: > Ghee.Teo at sun.com wrote: >> I thought OpenOffice 2.0/StarOffice 8 has been made CUPS >> compatible and does not needs its own directory to obtain >> PPD files. > > Are there plans to make CUPS the Solaris 11 default printer management? > > The user interface to this is very simple and is the only printing system I > found to be both (1) available on Linux & Solaris X86 and (2) capable of > properly communicating with any printer I have gotten. > > By default Solaris 11 ships with a seamingly unstopable (without preventing > GDM from starting....) and unconfigurable IPP Listener. > see "http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/ipp-listener.html"; > > Prior to IPP Listener, I was able to go to "http://localhost:631"; to conduct > complete > printer management with CUPS. Now this same page displays useless > information about IPP and then forwards me to a IPP standards site. To get > around this, I had to install CUPS from one of the non-Solaris DVDs and > then place CUPS lp before /usr/bin/lp to get printing to work. Then, > "http://localhost:631"; is still useless, but "http://localhost:631/printers"; > can be > used to manage the printers with CUPS. > > How is one to punt IPP Listener off the box without preventing GDM from > starting? > > Are there any plans to ship CUPS instead of IPP Listener on Solaris 11 DVDs? > > Where do I file the bug? > > Joel.
