From: swedebugia@riseup.net
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Idea: guix printer configuration generation
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 06:35:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5824903382ddd5dac85c14c54f8d44d@riseup.net> (raw)
Hi
I would rather not have to learn the CUPS web interface just to
configure my printer. Do we have a way to do this yet from config.scm? I
think we should abstract away everything CUPS.
Maybe we could make a guix printer importer?
The idea is to extract information about the printer via Guile and print
what the user need to add to the config.scm.
Something like this:
$ guix printer
"Found 1 USB printer: HP DeskJet 4330
(cups-configuration
(printer
(name "HP DeskJet 4330"
(connection "usb://34234556"
(settings
(paper "a4"
(source "default"
..."
When the user adds this to their config.scm and reconfigures the printer
JUST WORKS.
Thoughts?
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-16 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 14:35 swedebugia [this message]
2019-01-16 15:00 ` Idea: guix printer configuration generation Gábor Boskovits
2019-01-17 7:22 ` swedebugia
2019-01-17 12:08 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-01-17 13:41 ` swedebugia
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