[Desktop12.04-Topic] Google Cloud Print Integration

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 08:21:24 UTC 2011


On 10/19/2011 09:47 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Sounds like a case to add to the new GNOME Online Accounts panel. If you
> have a Google account, you enter your address, and then choose whether
> you want to enable mail, docs, etc., or cloud print. You'd just need to
> add another GtkSwitch. No need to add a new applet that would clutter
> the control center for most users that don't use that feature.

OK, good idea. This also avoids that users have to log into their Google 
account at several different places. To decide which printers get 
available in the cloud one could perhaps use the state whether a printer 
is shared or not, and this state can already be changed in 
system-config-printer.

    Till



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