[cups.development] GUI backend

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On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:03:20AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
> >HP does this in HPLIP. Their GUI part is listening on the D-Bus and the
> >fax CUPS backend communicates with GUI via the D-Bus, passing the job
> >over to the GUI. Then the GUI for sending faxes opens and allows the
> >user to choose a cover page, fax numbers, and additional files to fax
> >and sends everything to the fax-capable MF device.
>
> Note that this also means it is impossible to use an HPLIP Fax queue
> remotely.  In fact, any "custom" graphical interface is likely to suffer
> from this problem.

It's possible to do so, by looking at the 'job-originating-host-name'
IPP attribute, and connecting to your GUI app there from your backend
(of course depending on the meaning of "remotely" some firewall work
is probably required in some cases)

bye

Jerome Alet
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