Name: eos-config-printer
Owner: endlessm
Description: D-Bus service for installing printer drivers
Created: 2015-02-12 17:48:23.0
Updated: 2016-01-22 18:21:00.0
Pushed: 2018-05-15 05:22:05.0
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Size: 41
Language: Python
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D-Bus service for installing printer drivers
eos-config-service provides a D-Bus activatable service to install printer drivers in EOS providing the type of driver (an integer) and a variable dictionary of string arguments (depending on the type).
At the moment, only drivers coming from OpenPrinting.org and packaged as debian files are supported, so the required parameters to install those will be the following ones:
The InstallDriver service will receive those parameters and, after checking that the needed Polkit policies are satisfied for the current user (should belong to 'lpadmin' group), will proceed with the verification and installation of the printer driver.
There are 7 different stages:
Last, a symlink pointing from '/usr/share/ppd/eos-config-printer/' to '/var/lib/cups/ppd/eos-config-printer/' is required for CUPS to be able to find the installed PPD files without requiring additional configuration. In EOS, we create this symlink as part of the installation of the CUPS package, but
eos-config-printer is Copyright © 2015 Endless Mobile, Inc. and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Additionally, the following components from system-config-printer, licensed under the same license GNU General Public License with Copyright © 2006 - 2015 Red Hat, Inc., were reused:
See the COPYING file for the full version of the GNU GPLv2 license