Too many printing apps

[Jan Claeys]

Op donderdag 06-12-2007 om 02:06 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Nanley
Chery:
> As of now, we have three printing applications: one for Managing Print
> Jobs, another for setting the Default Printer, and another for managing
> Printing settings. Respectively, these entries exist under Accessories,
> Preferences, and Administration; this is excessive.

There is a global printer settings dialog and a user-specific dialog to
set the default printer (possibly different from the system-default
printer).  I guess the print job manager could be hidden from the menus,
as it's available through its status panel icon?

[...]
> The only hurdle is that the Printing app is a tool requiring root
> privileges and the others don't. It may be (by design) that the other
> two apps were provided for non-admin users to manage their printing
> preferences and jobs. If this is the case, would it be possible to have
> the Printing app globally accessible, requiring a password only when
> some options are chosen? or even multiple printing profiles?

I understand that PolicyKit should allow this in the future.


-- 
Jan Claeys