[cups.general] Re: How to authenticate from printing software?

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 10:06 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:

> Sounds like a totally over-engineered solution that doesn't solve
> the general problem, 

Why don't you think it solves the general problem?  In general, moving
things into the user session where possible allows a lot more feedback,
flexibility, and integration, particularly with respect to
authentication.  The problem CUPS solves is at a high level quite
similar to email, and the general trend has been moving away from piping
your mail into /usr/bin/sendmail, in favor of talking SMTP directly.

> and we aren't interested.

Could you elaborate in particular about what you feel is over-
engineered, and why you aren't interested?  What is "the general
problem"?

> We have some UI- and network-agnostic notification-based ideas that
> we will be trying once CUPS 1.2 is released.  

The D-BUS patches for cups are certainly UI agnostic; eggcups happens to
implement a particular UI for them.  Not sure what you mean by network
agnostic.

> They could tie in to
> your D-BUS stuff quite easily without requiring a session-level CUPS
> daemon running.

We are very interested in getting this work upstreamed, so I'd like to
keep abreast of what you are doing here.

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