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October 24, 2007

Printer Autoconfiguration

Filed under: D-Bus, Fedora, Freedesktop, Gnome, Linux, Redhat, Standards, hal, usability — J5 @ 2:43 pm

It 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.

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3 Comments

  1. 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.

    Comment by iain — October 24, 2007 @ 3:00 pm

  2. 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

    Comment by Luca Cavalli — October 24, 2007 @ 5:56 pm

  3. 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 :-)

    Comment by davidz — October 24, 2007 @ 10:31 pm

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