Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-18 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
And are the implementations not prone to modification? As in we could specify a particular #print_port to bypass them? On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri vamsi.davul...@gmail.com wrote: The link you gave didn't work, so I checked this page

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-18 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
True enough, but I hadn't been talking about printing from activities directly at all for the last half of the mails. : But for even CUPS to act as a server and accept incoming requests, it would have to excercise freedom to one port atleast, but write a bit of a code so that it accepts requests

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-18 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Ah, that was the thing I had not understood with the extra credits that were given. I had thought that functionality had to be added to each desktop so it would act as a print server. sorry. Clarify a few things for me : What exactly was required/meant from/by a print server? I was in the opinion

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-18 Thread Luke Faraone
2009/3/18 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri vamsi.davul...@gmail.com Clarify a few things for me : What exactly was required/meant from/by a print server? I was in the opinion that each laptop was supposed to act as server for the network :P It seems I misunderstood *you*. That makes sense, it just

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-17 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Ben, are you going to be mentoring this project? Or is there a *possible* mentor I can discuss about this on the IRC channel? On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote: Thank you! I think I'll do what you said, I'll just let every activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-17 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri vamsi.davul...@gmail.com wrote: After talking to tomeu, and discovering the pygtk print api,(which through backends interacts with the cups api) I think its okay to just include the cups api, and then on top of pygtk print (which has

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

2009-03-15 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Hello, A Student trying to get into GSoC here After a bit of research I have come up with this approach for the mandatory requirements that a printer would assume to comply. 1)Integration of a printing infrastructure (CUPS ??) into the XO-1 software images - pycups is an opensource based