[hfdb] Sorry - fixed now Re: [Fwd: Summary of the LSM Free Software Printing Summit]

[Joe Shaw]

Hi,

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 00:17 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> I'm not sure how much hal needs to be involved here - remember, one of
> the primary goals of hal is merge (arbitrary) data with bus/class
> specific data, not replace existing software.
> 
>
> So the thinking is that desktop apps just ask hal for printers on the
> system and then they get both the information we've probed for (usb,
> ieee1284 and device node) as well as the stuff we've merged (the name of
> the ppd file).
> 
> Now, I don't know a lot about printing, Joe Shaw might be better to
> comment on this, but am I on the right track? Or is this already solved
> in existing or planned software?

David, I think this is the right approach.

Zenaan, to what extent does this plan overlap, integrate, and work in
conjunction with Foomatic?  Foomatic already has a pretty good printer
database with good info, and it has the mechanism for mapping for
autodetection of printers (although something like 1% of the printer
descriptions actually have that info, sigh.).

When I looked at the printing problem a few months ago, I really
approached it from the foomatic angle, as that's what all the major
distributions use for their printer descriptions.  I think it'd help to
get a little more insight into how it fits into the puzzle, if at all.

Joe

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