Making autoprinter support work

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

gnome-volume-manager offers an 'autoprinter' command, i. e. something
that is run when a new USB printer is attached. It would be sweet to
call gnome-cups-add in this case to ease the setup for novice users.

However, this requires two things:

 * hal currently does not set the 'printer' capability. This is easy
   to achieve with a small fdi that gives that capability to an 'USB
   Printer Interface'. Is there already a common solution for that?
   David, do you plan to add something like this to the upstream
   version?	

 * Does anybody know a robust method how to check whether a particular
   printer (identified by its hal UDI) is already configured in Cups?

Thanks in advance for any idea!

Martin
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