Announcing printerd

Posted May 22, 2012 16:14 UTC (Tue) by randomguy3 (subscriber, #71063)
In reply to: Announcing printerd by aaron
Parent article: Announcing printerd

> 1. Not enough daemons. (If history is a guide, printerd would run in addition to the various CUPS daemons, "just in case.")

Although printerd can be on-demand, due to the D-Bus interface. Or it could provide a cups compatibility layer.

> 6. Force everyone to go graphical/PDF, since we don't need to support receipt/invoice/check/line/Braille printers anymore.

Presumably applications where that is relevant wouldn't use printerd's D-Bus interface, but talk to (and require) cups directly.