Op donderdag 06-12-2007 om 02:06 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Nanley Chery: > As of now, we have three printing applications: one for Managing Print > Jobs, another for setting the Default Printer, and another for managing > Printing settings. Respectively, these entries exist under Accessories, > Preferences, and Administration; this is excessive.
There is a global printer settings dialog and a user-specific dialog to set the default printer (possibly different from the system-default printer). I guess the print job manager could be hidden from the menus, as it's available through its status panel icon? [...] > The only hurdle is that the Printing app is a tool requiring root > privileges and the others don't. It may be (by design) that the other > two apps were provided for non-admin users to manage their printing > preferences and jobs. If this is the case, would it be possible to have > the Printing app globally accessible, requiring a password only when > some options are chosen? or even multiple printing profiles? I understand that PolicyKit should allow this in the future. -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
