Hi Eldee, Thanks for bring this out and am glad that presto has served you well :) See my answers in line. I am sure at some point Norm will want to chip in a few other points.
Eldee Stephens wrote: > ghee, et al, > > with the fast approaching switch-over to CUPS as the default printing system > in opensolaris, what is presto's future? Presto has achieved what its has set out to do, auto-detection of USB and network printer for LP. A lot of efforts from the team to take it thus far. > one of the delights of working with opensolaris -- at least in desktop usage > -- has been the zero-effort configuration of nearby network printers. when > going from place to place, within seconds, i have new printers all configured > for my use. and the integration with lp is wonderful. it never fails to > impress folks familiar with linux or windows environments. "you mean, your > development system can do that, too?!" > I am delighted to hear :) > system-config-printer is nice and all, but it doesn't compare with the presto > print manager as far as usability is concerned. Agreed. presto print manager was much better designed much credits should go to Calum Benson (GUI designer) who designed the GUI. system-config-printer is much more evolutional in that it was first modeled after the Web browser GUI of CUPS. > not to mention my auto-magically self-configuring printers will go away. > Have you tried system-config-printer, with the SUNWhal-cups-utils installed, detection of USB printer is automatic. It also automatically found other CUPS printers in the network if they have been set to be shared. It also can browse to access windows printers. > please tell me there is a future for presto after the Great Switchover coming > in SNV130! will presto be extended to use CUPS, I think extending presto GUI to CUPS and just to do what system-config-printer does I think is an duplicated effort. So there is no plan to do so. Unless of course if the maintainer of system-config-printer thinks Presto GUI is so nice that they want it for CUPS, a joint effort could be considered. The fact is that delivering and maintaining 2 apps doing pretty much of same is hard to justify. > or will we have to 'print-service -s lp' after opensolaris 2010.03 comes out? > ;) > Well. If you have already LP queue setup, 2010.03 will not force you to go over to CUPS. So if you are maintaining your system by image-update, you don't to do that. On a newly installed system, yes, if you really want presto on the newly installed system; you have to install SUNWprint-monitor and associated packages as well. -Ghee > -- eldee > (t/l 295-8943) >
