Can CUPS provides a UI plugin for each printer setting page?

[yliu0131 at brockport.edu]

I installed CUPS 1.2.0b1 (4511). From cups/CHANGES.txt, it says "Now support custom attributes and extended options in PPD files".

Is there a working example on how to use that feature? Can someone at least point out which .c file handles that? I checked cups/ppd.c, it looks like it still only handles "boolean", "pickone", "pickmany".

Thanks


> yliu0131 at brockport.edu wrote:
> > Is it possible for CUPS to provide a UI plug in for each printer
> > (Like Mac's printer plugin)? Many feature can be supported then (page
> > range, customer page size, accounting, vender specific features, etc)
>
> No, CUPS does not and probably will never provide this.
>
> However, CUPS does support UI groups in PPD files, and CUPS 1.2 adds
> support for more custom option types so that you can define options
> that take a range of values or type-in fields for text values, so it
> is possible that you will be able to accomplish what you want to do
> without resorting to non-standard techniques.
>
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