Re: new module: eggcups

Chipzz <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:14:54 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.print
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407170311200.17744__27474.094174295$1090031728$gmane$org@lea>
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:54 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>
> > One thing I've never liked about eggcups/gnome-cups-manager is the
> > explicit conflict between them.  g-c-m is a all-in-one solution for CUPS
> > management and user notification, whereas eggcups is just a user
> > notification tool.
>
> Well, eggcups isn't *purely* notification - it also allows you to cancel
> your own jobs, for example.

As I see it, there are 2 things wrong with eggcups:

1) Despite what you may think or say, people _DO_ want to see other
   peoples jobs. It is extremely relevant when you have a shared printer
   at work or at college where queues can mean you have to wait 2 hours
   to get your print job.
2) dbus patched cups -> not going to happen any time soon in distro's I
   think. People may be very reluctant to do this.

So, as I see it, this is not an acceptable solution.

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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