Printer Ink levels and capabilities

Wed Aug 30 20:05:26 PDT 2006

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:09 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Yes, (cc'ing maintainer) I really do think this belongs in attached to a
> HAL dbus interface, something like org.freedesktop.Hal.Printer.InkLevel.
> 
> This means we get a little interface that any program can query (over
> DBUS) and get the ink level for the correct printer).
> 
> Or maybe just bolt on a dbus interface to libinklevel and then use it
> from a hal addon - now I'm just playing with ideas.

Indeed, we'd just wrap the relevant parts of libinklevel as a D-BUS API.
Note that there's also a bug open on this

 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2295

    David