Re: new module: eggcups

Havoc Pennington <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:35:42 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.print
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:31, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> Not to nitpick, but I think you're still goign to need something like
> system tools for adding printers that still use the parallel port or
> something like that.  Even though today's printers are USB we should
> attempt to support old printers as well.  
> 

General approach we've been taking at Red Hat for UI designs that
involve hardware is to design for the sensible hardware (USB, network
cards that give you link status, hardware we have drivers for) and then
add on extra UI for the corner cases that only appears when required.

Havoc