Kudzu and automatic detection

[Michael Favia]

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Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
| What about making the printer stopped in cups, and then make sure
| programs actually don't print to it? (ie. changing something in the UI
| when printer is stopped)
|
| If the user really has thrown away the printer, let the *user* delete it
| from system-config-printer. It ain't that hard to find and figure out,
| most of those config tools are pretty good AND understandable.
|

While i dont know if it is the best solution i struggle to think of a
more elegant one and it sounds decently reasonable to me.

My only concern is that i like to unify the operation of devices and
interfaces as much as possible so users have to learn as little as
possible to work with their system compentently.

To that end i would imagine that treating all hot-pluggable devices as
similiarly (as is reasonable) is the best route. That way when a user
plugs in a USB key, digicam or USB printer the operations the user makes
with the GUI are familiar (a real issue for beginners).

Perhaps some stoage mechanism to record the previous settings for the
device and save them in the background until the device is plugged back
in again really is the best method.

I dont like the idea of hidden settings that activate (sounds like
malware) but it shouldnt be too difficult to integrate a reset to
defaults option.

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Michael Favia            michael.favia at insitesinc.com
Insites Incorporated       http://michael.insitesinc.com
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