Re: redhat-config-printer is not as powerful as web interface.

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Well I will admit the CUPS text interface is lame but printconf is
> certainly not prettier nor as powerfull as the interface you get by
> usaing your browser to access:
> http:/localhost:631/admin

I've seen it. I was comparing the GUI version printconf-gui with the web 
page from cups in an X based browser. The printconf GUI is much 
prettier. I agree it's not as powerfull. The kde tool (cupsdconf) is 
better than printconf today, but I don't think it supports auto 
detection like printconf does. I still think printconf is nicer, but I 
dislike the KDE style almost as much I I dislike motif/CDE.

> It can set up classes of printers and manage the printers at a much
> higher level in many ways than redhat-config-printer.
> Try it and see what you think.

Most desktop users, the RHL9 target user, only has 1 printer. A few have 
2, a color inkjet and a b/w laser. The higher level management is just 
not something they need. In a enterprise setting, that functionality is 
great, but the sysadmin would set that up, and the desktops wouldn't 
care. LPRng was great in that regard.
(I have 4 printers I use at work, and LPR was very simple to setup for a 
given desktop. Now, local attached printers were a different story... )

	-Thomas