On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:27:24 -0000
Ante Karamatić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 06:52:35 -0000
> Peter Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > (General comment on cups configuration: needs a simple GUI for setting
> > up network printing, or some buttons to say somehing like "allow
> > machines on your local network to use this printer".)
> 
> On Dapper, this is trivial; if you want to browse for IPP shared
> printers on network, only thing needed is:

[snip]
> 
> And GUI... Well, we are working on it :)
> 

If it is as trivial as that, surely these commands could be coupled to a
few well-named buttons almost as trivially as the commands
themselves? 

The solution you give is indeed trivial for those accustomed to using the
CLI for configuration - thanks for the hints - but that would look pretty
scary to Aunt Tilly ;-) I'm sure you've read ESR's rant about CUPS, so I
won't labour the point !

Peter

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cupsys 1.2.1-0ubuntu1 doesn't support 11.22.33.* network masks
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52390

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