Wed 24 Oct 2007
Printer Autoconfiguration
Posted by J5 under Gnome , Linux , Redhat , Freedesktop , D-Bus , Fedora , hal , Standards , usabilityIt is good to see other distributions are picking up the eggcups printer autoconfiguration interfaces which I had started and Tim Waugh had perfected. It was more than three years ago that GNOME had a dream of making USB hardware ‘Just Work’ when plugging them in. Today one can’t imagine a desktop distribution which doesn’t have this. A key agenda at the next GUADEC should be getting a lot of this work accepted upstream and figuring out how last mile items like PolicyKit will add polish to great stack we have built up.
[read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
October 24th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Its things like this that make me excited for the future of GNOME; Things like making printers work, Bastien’s work of getting Bluetooth devices just working, William Jon McCann’s GDM/Userswitcher/Multi-user support, PackageKit.
When things like that are working smoothly, not when we can have fantastically rendered clocks on our desktop backgrounds that we will have a desktop of the future in our hands.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Who is the maintainer? Bugs #349262[1] and #416740[2] need some love
[1] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349262
[2] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416740
October 24th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
JFTR the PolicyKit docs are now at
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
and
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit-gnome/
for the GTK+ bits. There’s some juice diagrams and screenshots in those docs so be careful