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Presto - OpenSolaris
Printing Make Easy
Ghee Teo
[email protected]
Presenting:
Michal Pryc ([email protected])
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Agenda
● Why presto?
● Printer Management tools on Unix
● Presto
– Architecture
– Print Manager – basic requirements
– Supported print systems
– Programming language
– How many threads
– Group manager
– Desktop integration
– Road map
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Presto – Printing Made Easy
● Why presto?
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Presto – Printing Made Easy
● Why presto?
Why not?
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Presto – Printing Made Easy
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Presto – Printing Made Easy
● Why presto?
– OpenSolaris Printer set up gap
(Hardest task to complete in on survey)
– Improve user's experinece
• auto-detection
• auto-discovery vs manual specification
– Use SMF for managing network queue
discovery/advertising services
– Tighter desktop integration
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Printer Management tools on Unix
Tomcio77 Olivier Lejade
Tools wrapped around Tools based on printing
command line's output libraries
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Printer Management tools on Unix
/usr/dt/bin/dtprintinfo
/usr/bin/gnome-printinfo
/usr/sbin/printmgr
Tomcio77
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Printer Management tools on Unix
GNOME CUPS Manager
PrinterDrake
System-config-printer
PRESTO
Olivier Lejade
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GNOME CUPS Manager
● Dave Camp 2003
– Gnome-cups-manager
– Gnome-cups-add
● GNOME, GTK+, libcups
● Integrated with desktop (notification area)
● User still needs to fill text entries
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GNOME CUPS Manager
● Eric Redmond - “Cups horror” [0]
[0] http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
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PrinterDrake
● Plug and Print
(Parallel/USB)
● Network printer discovery
using SNMP
● Fuzzy matching of
Manufacturer and model
name
● configuration of sharing of
CUPS printers
● automatic download of
certain firmware if needed
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System-config-printer
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Architecture of Presto
Kernel Network Printer Network Printer
Discovery (snmp) Discovery (mDNS)
Device HotPlug
(sysevent)
devfsadmd
EC_add/EC_remove
ESC_printer (sysevent)
Solaris LP
HAL Dev Print System
hald Tree
Device Added/Removed
(DBUS signal)
libpapi
lpadmin
PrinterAdded
ospm-applet (DBUS signal) ospm-pm
Desktop
Add Queue
Notification
Dialog
Bubble
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Local printer discovery
Kernel
Device HotPlug
(sysevent)
devfsadmd
EC_add/EC_remove
ESC_printer (sysevent)
Solaris LP
HAL Dev Print System
hald Tree
Device Added/Removed
(DBUS signal)
libpapi
lpadmin
PrinterAdded
ospm-applet (DBUS signal) ospm-pm
Desktop
Add Queue
Notification
Dialog
Bubble
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Network printer discovery
Network Printer Network Printer
Discovery (snmp) Discovery (mDNS)
Solaris LP
HAL Dev Print System
hald Tree
Device Added/Removed
(DBUS signal)
libpapi
lpadmin
PrinterAdded
ospm-applet (DBUS signal) ospm-pm
Desktop
Notification
Bubble
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Print manager – basic requirements
● the tool must get away from parsing command line
program's output
● the tool must be able to handle large number of queues
reasonably as some environment contains.
● the tool must provide functionalities adequately to replace
some existing tools such as gnome-printinfo and Solaris
printmgr on the desktop.
● seamless integration into the desktop
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Print system supported
● Solaris LP
● CUPS is not supported at the moment
(has been integrated into Solaris Nevada build 87)
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Programming language
C as a natural choice
– Solaris Implementation of PAPI is written in C
– GTK+ toolkit is written in C and well suited to
implement Desktop GUI
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Threads – How many?
● GUI
● Queue states
● Job States
Paul Wicks
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Why Printer Group Manager
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Group types
● Special
– All Printers (System)
– Favorites (User)
● Static
– list of named print queues
● Dynamic
– list of queues derived from
specification of printer's
attributes
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How groups are used?
● Through extension to GTK+ Print Dialog for
all arbitrary group (Not implemented yet)
● Utilizing favorites ($HOME/.printers) on
OpenSolaris LP print system
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Integration of Groups to GTK+ Print Dialog
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Road map
● Local USB auto-detection and creation of queue – Nevada 69
● SNMP network device printer discovery – Nevada 77
● OpenSolaris Print Manger – Nevada 96/97, OpenSolaris
2008.11
● More Network printer discovery modules – MDNS, Samba ?
● CUPS support in OpenSolaris Print Manager?
● GTK+ Print Dialog for Groups
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Thanks
Ghee Teo
[email protected]
Presenting:
Michal Pryc ([email protected])
