[Openicc] [Per Queue] [GSOC] Making a color assignment in CUPS web interface?

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:25 AM, edmund ronald wrote:
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>>> CUPS is in all Linux distributions. Gnome, KDE, etc come and go, and are more fragmented. Maybe we should add the color stuff into the common CUPS management interface and its API, rather than the superstructure? 
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>> Not possible, IMO. Apple is the maintainer of CUPS and in 1.6 is making a very aggressive change in direction that may turn out to be incompatible with the direction Linux printing wants to go in. PostScript is going away, that includes PPDs, in favor of IPP Everywhere.
> 
> Please don't comment on things you do not have a clear understanding of.

A fair criticism of a very unqualified comment on my part. In general I see PostScript going away as a trend, I did not mean to imply it or PPDs are already gone/unsupported in CUPS 1.6.

> CUPS 1.6 will include colord support - Red Hat contributed the work to Apple and I am working on integrating that code along with the Avahi support.

Good to know.

Chris Murphy
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