hi,
Am Dienstag, den 04.02.2014, 20:52 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Shachnev:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Michał Sawicz <michal@sawicz.net> wrote:
> > Whoa now ;). This is a thread about CUPS, isn't it? It lets you do all that,
> > and more. As long as you have the wire connected *somewhere* to CUPS (that
> > something needs to be powered on to print, of course - not necessarily at
> > the time of printing, though).
>
> That's why I said "difficult", not "impossible". To be honest, I know
> no people amongst my friends who do such things. But maybe that is
> because printing experience in Android/iOS is less optimal than in
> Ubuntu Touch :)
there is no printing experience on Ubuntu Touch yet and it will indeed
not involve to plug a cable into your phone but use network printers ...
but as i understand the cups architecture even that needs the locally
running server anyway (and we can not run it permanently as it will
prevent the phone from sleeping most likely)
i personally just don't get why we cant make cups stop even on the
desktop unless the machine is an actual printserver, the additional
startup time will be minor on a modern desktop/laptop PC. i doubt people
would even notice that their print job takes a few seconds longer than
it would with a permanently running daemon.
doing it the same way on desktop and phone/tablet will simply save us
from having to maintain different special cases here.
ciao
oli
