Hey,
gheet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have heard quite poor user experience on OpenSolaris/Solaris printing
> from time to time. Some of these poor use experiences include:
>
> - How can I set up a new print queue for my new printer?
> - How can I attach to a particular print queue?
> - How can I make the default printer to be the one next to my desk?
> - How can I change my default printer on the fly in a mobile office?
> etc...
>
> Actually all of these can be done on OpenSolaris easy enough if you know
> what you are doing. But we want to make it better really :) That is, if
> only you have a vague idea, all the tasks described above can be acheived.
I'd like to get to a stage where for the default user, everything 'Just
Works' [1] as much as humanly possible - although obviously having a
simple to use set of configuration dialogs to do more complicated tasks.
I would personally advise us to already start looking at the new GTK+
printing stack, seeing what that gives us, and develop a printing roadmap.
Glynn
[1] Seriously, printing should be the easiest task in the world. I can
select a default printer from a list of auto-detected printers.
It'll auto-detect what type of printer that is, and tell me the
appropriate settings I can choose from to print my document. If I
plug in a new USB printer directly, it'll tell me that a new printer
is available. Done. No messing around with localhost:631, no messing
around on the command line. And I certainly don't need to know about
LP, CUPS, PAPI or any other underlying technology I'm using.
