[Printing-architecture] Notes of today's telecon

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi,

I agree with Wendy that I had been proposing language tag
as the least significant directory, but looking at the two
paths I prefer Till's specification (after supplier, but 
before make-model-extra).

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

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> On Behalf
> Of Till Kamppeter
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:33 AM
> To: Wendy Phillips
> Cc: printing-architecture
> Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Notes of today's telecon
> 
> 
> Wendy Phillips wrote:
> > I recall the ppd path differently:
> > 
> > /usr/share/ppd/<supplier>/<make>/<model>/<language tag>
> > 
> 
> I remember that it was
> 
> /usr/share/ppd/<supplier>/<language 
> tag>/<make>-<model>-<extra info>.ppd
> 
> > Comment on PPD files at Linuxprinting.org
> >     As the user, if I select printer abc model 123, would I 
> get a choice
> > of suppliers? Such as, print vendor abc, gutenprint, 
> linuxprinting.org,
> > ... or is this for printer vendors exclusively?
> 
> You will get a choice of suppliers. Currently you can already choose
> various drivers for one and the same model, and these are usually from
> different suppliers. What will change in the future is that there will
> be hosted or linked machine-installable binary packages of drivers for
> automatization of installation of printers which are not 
> (yet) known to
> the actually installed distro.
> 
>    Till
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