[Wylug-discuss] CUPS

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, James Holden (WYLUG) wrote:

> Aside from the RH/Fedora GUI tool, the CUPS browser interface is
> seriously lacking. You have to resort to command line stuff to get
> printers added (via foomatic-configure) and the defaults for browsing
> and discovery and access are senseless.

The Redhat tools have been shocking for a while, using CUPS as a default but
working better with LPRng.  Why do you have to resort to the command-line to
add a printer?  What's wrong with the defaults (for home use)?

> There's no method of setting the default printer via the browser interface,
> and the status messages are inaccurate and misleading.

Indeed.

jh

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