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Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.
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printing enhancements: cups backend status #1228

Open totaam opened 8 years ago

totaam commented 8 years ago

To populate more fully the printer information in some print dialogs (see screenshot), we would need to add support for the side-channel and/or back-channel:

Sadly, this is not exposed in pycups.. so we would need to use ctypes.

totaam commented 8 years ago

2016-06-13 07:11:34: antoine uploaded file print-dialog.png (55.0 KiB)

a print dialog with an xpra forwarded printer print-dialog.png

totaam commented 6 years ago

See also #1344

totaam commented 2 years ago

The commit above should show something in the printer status, at least briefly.
To make the backend more useful, we need to change the print backend to get feedback from the server and potentially also from the remote client(s) - which is much more difficult. At the moment we just execute a send-file subcommand.