On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:

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>     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

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