[X2go-Dev] x2goserver-printing package

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 10:47 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Saturday 24 September 2011 05:46:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 01:53 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > in a phone conference Heinz, Alex and I have talked about printing not
> > > being a very core feature of X2go Server. Esp. the x2goprint use is
> > > not needed on X2go Servers that are used without the print facility.
> > > 
> > > Because of this I have made a proposal in X2go Git that move X2go
> > > client-side printing support back into a separate package
> > > (x2goserver-printing).
> > > 
> > > Please take a look at the committed changes (x2goserver.git) and comment.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > I would agree that is makes sense to keep it as a separate feature.  I
> > do hope there is no discussion of removing support as I do think X2Go
> > would be woefully incomplete without it.  Thanks - John
> 
> That is debatable:-) We use X2Go totally without the need for client-side 
> printing. What is the purpose of central printers and central print-servers 
> and diskless thin-clients, when every user gets his own printer and then needs 
> printing at his place.
<snip>
<grin> when there are no central printers and central print-servers or
when the client is accessing their desktop from some atypical location
and needs to utilize the facilities at hand.  So, as you did mention,
there are other scenarios - John