Ah this looks very very interesting. So just a question about HALs Dynamics. when certain information is requested can HAL aquire the information or does it need to have that information stored already? <div>On 8/25/06, Lennart Poettering <<a href="mailto:mzuny@0pointer.de">mzuny@0pointer.de </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 25.08.06 07:46, Richard Hughes (<a href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com"> hughsient@gmail.com</a>) wrote: > > If the information could somehow be provided, would it make sense for > > HAL to be the place to store it? > > Yes I think so too. How can we get the ink information for locally > connected printers? Is this a cups thing? I admit I use epsutil which > doesn't exactly integrate well with GNOME :-) > > What about HP, Lexmark and the others? There is this project: <a href="http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/">http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/</a> Looks well maintained and seems to support a wide range of printers. Recent -rc versions apparently support HP, Epson and Canon. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering; lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553; GPG 0x1A015CC4; <a href="http://0pointer.net/lennart/">http://0pointer.net/lennart/</a> _______________________________________________ hal mailing list <a href="mailto:hal@lists.freedesktop.org">hal@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal</a> </blockquote> </div>