[desktop-discuss] Making Printing experience better

[Calum Benson]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:23 +0100, gheet wrote:

> Current state of things:
> 
> There are two printing related apps according to the current ui spec
>    o One under Launch-> Administration and
>    o The other Launch->Applications->System Tools
>
>     First of these is really a sys admin tool to manage print queues, 
> the second one is a user tool to set default print queue and manage 
> print jobs. The first one is a Java Swing app and the second one is a 
> GNOME app.

This is just off the top of my head, but IMHO we ideally shouldn't need
both of these menu entries; the print queue monitor should probably just
be enhanced to allow you to add and remove printers as well.  In the
interim I guess that could be done just by firing up the existing Java
app as required (after prompting for an admin password, if necessary),
although that's obviously kind of a sucky way to do it.

We could perhaps even get rid of the proposed menu entry for spadmin
(the Star/OpenOffice printer config tool) too, by making the print queue
monitor the entry point for that as well.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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