I can't speak for the classroom, but in the house I have two kids very
active with their Mac computers and often wishing to print. I think
printing is an area where lots of little things can go wrong which
need grownups to sort out.
I have a single printer connected to a computer on the main
Print queue management and quotas are key to this feature being usable in a
classroom/school environment. Consumables are very expensive and kids love
to hit print, often without thinking. So providing a way to place print
jobs in a hold for review status is very important, IMHO, as well as
Carol, thanks for replying! Much appreciated!
So in a classroom environment, can I assume the classroom server will be
acting as the server?
The thing is I never got proper input on what I branded obscure. Yes, I
agree, if its a classroom environment I'll definitely add permission access
and
class room/school server as the print server*
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
vamsi.davul...@gmail.com wrote:
Carol, thanks for replying! Much appreciated!
So in a classroom environment, can I assume the classroom server will be
acting as the server?
The thing is I
2009/3/19 Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com:
A problem with the desktop-oriented printer support in Unix and in Windows
is that it has the underlying assumption that the person at the desktop
should be in unfettered control of the ability to print (with lip service
paid to an overall page
2009/3/19 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri vamsi.davul...@gmail.com
one question, the school server will be running on a normal distro, or
sugar?
Fedora CLI, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server
2009/3/19 Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com
I disagree that print-to-pdf should be omitted. I
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Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote:
But as tomeu had pointed out, what of the schools without servers? In that
case printing would have a need to be done from the laptops themselves.
Yes. There are lots of potential use cases that you might support, but
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Eben Eliason wrote:
I have to agree that a print to pdf function could be useful, though,
especially since it means that every activity can create output that
can be transferred elsewhere (via email, USB drive, etc.) for
printing. This provides a
I see your point, I agree. I will do the elimination as is required, and
this time include a milestones/deadlines in my hopefully final draft
proposal.
My main objective will be to send the file from the laptop through the
network to the server, have the necessary code for it both sides.(and
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Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote:
I see your point, I agree. I will do the elimination as is required, and
this time include a milestones/deadlines in my hopefully final draft
proposal.
My main objective will be to send the file from the laptop
vamsi krishna davuluri wrote:
I see your point, I agree. I will do the elimination as is required, and
this time include a milestones/deadlines in my hopefully final draft
proposal.
My main objective will be to send the file from the laptop through the
network to the server, have the
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
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Eben Eliason wrote:
I have to agree that a print to pdf function could be useful, though,
especially since it means that every activity can create output that
Wade Brainerd wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
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Eben Eliason wrote:
I have to agree that a print to pdf function could be useful, though,
especially since it means that every activity
On 19 Mar 2009, at 20:34, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Wade Brainerd wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
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Eben Eliason wrote:
I have to agree that a print to pdf function could be useful,
Another use case is the student wants to print from home. The work may have
been done at school then the student comes home, either using SoaS or with a
laptop and now wants to print on the parent's computer.
2009/3/19 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri vamsi.davul...@gmail.com
Hello!
So here is a
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
I was not aware of any existing Activity which saves printable images or
documents to the Journal in a format that is not commonly used outside of
Sugar. Since you protested I looked through the source code
2009/3/19 Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc:
2009/3/19 Caroline Meeks carol...@meekshome.com
Another use case is the student wants to print from home. The work may
have been done at school then the student comes home, either using SoaS or
with a laptop and now wants to print on the parent's
I was researching that, just extracting the print-pdf modules along with its
dependencies and creating a new make (or package) should do the trick, but
my knowledge limits me from seeing an implementation for it.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
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