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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April 3, 2007
Havoc is like Silent Bob
You hardly hear from him but when you do it is pretty profound. It was a similar manifesto which launched the D-Bus project and inspired David Zeuthen to write HAL. Go, go, go mugshot team. GNOME should really get onboard.
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