On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: [cut]
> > Dear Florian, I agree with you that it is nice to enable the software to > ask the devices what their properties are, by some protocol. This is nice > for the dummy/lazzy user we are all up to some point. > > But here, the device is connected through the network; therefore it > cannot communicate through dbus. Dbus is used between two pieces of software > running on the system and there are simpler alternatives to this method. > yeah, namely. Why on Earth do we need dbus to send a print job over the network via lpd or http? The real answer is "we don't". The effective one is "the developers of hplip don't give a toss". HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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