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+TODO.cups12
+===========
+
+This is a list of features that need to be implemented in KDEPrint for
+KDE4.
+
+Many gaps have opened by the continuing CUPS 1.1.x development already
+(which added quite some new parameters and features), while KDEPrint
+development got dormant in recent years. Plus, even more new gaps by
+the recent CUPS 1.2 release (which added even more new features).
+
+
+ ---------------------------
+ In General:
+ ---------------------------
+* a GUI to configure client.conf is missing [1.1]
+* a GUI to configure snmp.conf is missing [1.2]
+* a GUI to configure subscriptions.conf is missing [1.2]
+
+Other stuff that's new:
+
+- port monitor support [1.2]
+- unique job IDs support [1.2]
+- print a self test page (if driver supports CUPS command file format,
+ you can now print the printer's self-test page) [1.2]
+- perform a self-cleaning of print heads (if driver supports CUPS
+ command file format, you can now clean print heads) [1.2]
+- per-printer sharing support [1.2]
+- per-printer error policy support [1.2]
+- per-printer operation policy support [1.2]
+- IPP notifications support [1.2]
+- cupsd.conf environment variable support [1.2]
+- driver interfaces support (CUPS 1.2 supports "driver interfaces"
+ which allow a driver to advertise the printers it supports and
+ automatically generate the PPD file as needed) [1.2]
+- improved error handling support (CUPS 1.2 API provides convenience
+ functions to get full error message of last request) [1.2]
+- improved "backchannel" support (CUPS 1.2 API provides backends and
+ filters with access to information sent back from a printer) [1.2]
+- globalized PPD support [1.2]
+- custom PPD option support [1.2]
+- extended PPD API support (CUPS 1.2 PPD API got added new functions:
+ reading from CUPS files; localization of globalized PPD files;
+ emitting of arbitrary ranges of options; custom option support [like
+ passwords, passcodes, curves, integers, points, reals and strings];
+ enhanced JCL support; and access to all options in a PPD file) [1.2]
+- CUPS ICC profiles support [1.2]
+
+
+ --------------------------------
+ More specifically:
+ --------------------------------
+
+kprinter
+--------
+
+* add support for "-U username somebody" (or, in a more IPP-conforming
+ syntax: "-o job-originating-username=username").
+
+* add support for multilanguage PPD files
+
+* add support for other CUPS extensions re. PPD parameters; especially
+ important is support for handling custom PPD options!
+
+
+kaddprinterwizard
+-----------------
+
+* add support for IPv6 syntax when specifying or parsing network
+ addresses
+
+* add support for new "snmp" backend in CUPS 1.2.
+
+ The snmp backend can auto-discover most printer types which are
+ attached to the LAN with a NIC. For a sort of introduction to its
+ features see http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2138/.
+
+ To check it from the commandline, just run it without any parameter:
+ "/usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp" (Ubuntu Dapper users have it disabled
+ by default; just run "/usr/lib/cups/backend-available/snmp". If you
+ have network printers in your LAN, you'll likely see an output like
+
+ network ipp://10.162.2.92:631/ipp "Ricoh IPP Printer v2.0" "Ricoh IPP Printer v2.0 10.162.2.92" ""
+ network socket://10.162.2.93 "infotec ISC824" "infotec ISC824 10.162.2.93" ""
+ network lpd://10.162.2.94/passthru "Canon iR5000-6000" "Canon iR5000-6000 10.162.2.94" ""
+
+ kaddprintwizard should be able to parse the CUPS snmp backend's
+ output for adding the auto-discovered network printers to the
+ local setup.
+
+* add support for the following parameters in printers.conf (which
+ where newly added in CUPS 1.2.0):
+ - ErrorPolicy
+ - OpPolicy
+ - Option
+ - PortMonitor
+ - Shared
+ - StateTime
+ For information purposes: currently supported parameters are:
+ - Accepting
+ - AllowUser
+ - DenyUser
+ - DeviceURI
+ - Info
+ - JobSheets
+ - KLimit
+ - Location
+ - PageLimit
+ - QuotaPeriod
+ - State
+ - StateMessage
+
+
+
+kaddprinterwizard --kdeconfig
+-----------------------------
+
+* add support for unix domain socket support (was added in CUPS 1.2.x)
+
+ CUPS 1.2 newly introduced the option to communicate via "unix
+ domain sockets" for local cases (CUPS client and server on the
+ same host [=localhost]. That means, you can now have 2 types of
+ "Listen" directives (concurrently):
+ Listen localhost:631
+ Listen /path/to/domain.sock.name
+
+ Support for unix domain socket communication should be added at
+ "CUPS Server Settings" --> "Server information".
+
+
+kaddprinterwizard --serverconfig
+--------------------------------
+
+* Add support for currently unsupported cupsd.conf 1.1.x parameters.
+ All in all 15 unsupported parameters:
+ - ConfigFilePerm
+ - FaxRetryInterval
+ - FaxRetryLimit
+ - FileDevice
+ - FilterNice
+ - Include
+ - LimitRequestBody
+ - LogFilePerm
+ - MaxClientsPerHost
+ - MaxCopies
+ - PrintcapGUI
+ - ReloadTimeout
+ - RootCertDuration
+ - RunAsUser
+ - ServerTokens
+
+* add support for cupsd.conf parameters newly introduced in CUPS 1.2.0.
+ Note, "RunAsUser" is no longer supported in CUPS 1.2.x!
+ All in all about 18 new parameters (on top of the 15 unsupported ones
+ from CUPS 1.1.x):
+ - BrowseLDAPBindDN
+ - BrowseLDAPDN
+ - BrowseLDAPPassword
+ - BrowseLDAPServer
+ - BrowseLocalOptions
+ - BrowseLocalProtocols
+ - BrowseRemoteOptions
+ - BrowseRemoteProtocols
+ - DefaultEncryption
+ - DefaultPolicy
+ - DefaultShared
+ - JobRetryInterval
+ - JobRetryLimit
+ - PassEnv
+ - Policy
+ - SetEnv
+ - UseNetworkDefault
+
+
+Complete list of 1.2.0 cupsd.conf directives
+--------------------------------------------
+
+This is a complete list of all cupsd.conf parameters that may be
+used in CUPS 1.2.x, alongside a listing if they are supported in
+KDEPrint 3.5.3:
+
+
+ ++ = supported
+ -- = unsupported
+
+ ------------+-----------------------------------------------------
+ Supported? | cupsd.conf directive
+ ------------+-----------------------------------------------------
+ ++ | AccessLog
+ ++ | Allow
+ ++ | AuthClass
+ ++ | AuthGroupName
+ ++ | AuthType
+ ++ | AutoPurgeJobs
+ ++ | BrowseAddress
+ ++ | BrowseAllow
+ ++ | BrowseDeny
+ ++ | BrowseInterval
+ -- (1.2) | BrowseLDAPBindDN
+ -- (1.2) | BrowseLDAPDN
+ -- (1.2) | BrowseLDAPPassword
+ -- (1.2) | BrowseLDAPServer
+ -- (1.2) | BrowseLocalOptions
+ -- (1.2) | BrowseLocalProtocols
+ ++ | BrowseOrder
+ ++ | BrowsePoll
+ ++ | BrowsePort
+ ++ | BrowseProtocols
+ ++ | BrowseRelay
+ ++ | BrowseRemoteOptions
+ ++ | BrowseRemoteProtocols
+ ++ | BrowseShortNames
+ ++ | BrowseTimeout
+ ++ | Browsing
+ ++ | Classification
+ ++ | ClassifyOverride
+ -- (1.1) | ConfigFilePerm
+ ++ | DataDir
+ ++ | DefaultAuthType
+ ++ | DefaultCharset
+ -- (1.2) | DefaultEncryption
+ ++ | DefaultLanguage
+ -- (1.2) | DefaultPolicy
+ -- (1.2) | DefaultShared
+ ++ | Deny
+ ++ | DocumentRoot
+ ++ | Encryption
+ ++ | ErrorLog
+ -- (1.1) | FileDevice
+ ++ | FilterLimit
+ -- (1.1) | FilterNice
+ ++ | FontPath
+ ++ | Group
+ ++ | HideImplicitMembers
+ ++ | HostNameLookups
+ ++ | ImplicitAnyClasses
+ ++ | ImplicitClasses
+ -- (1.1) | Include
+ -- (1.2) | JobRetryInterval # 1.1 had "FaxRetryInterval"
+ -- (1.2) | JobRetryLimit # 1.1 had "FaxRetryLimit"
+ ++ | KeepAlive
+ ++ | KeepAliveTimeout
+ ++ | Limit (Location)
+ ++ | Limit (Policy)
+ ++ | LimitExcept
+ -- (1.1) | LimitRequestBody
+ ++ | Listen
+ ++ | ListenBackLog
+ ++ | Location
+ -- (1.1) | LogFilePerm
+ ++ | LogLevel
+ ++ | MaxClients
+ -- (1.1) | MaxClientsPerHost
+ -- (1.1) | MaxCopies
+ ++ | MaxJobs
+ ++ | MaxJobsPerPrinter
+ ++ | MaxJobsPerUser
+ ++ | MaxLogSize
+ ++ | MaxRequestSize
+ ++ | Order
+ ++ | PageLog
+ ++ | PassEnv
+ -- (1.2) | Policy
+ ++ | Port
+ ++ | PreserveJobFiles
+ ++ | PreserveJobHistory
+ ++ | Printcap
+ ++ | PrintcapFormat
+ -- (1.1) | PrintcapGUI
+ -- (1.1) | ReloadTimeout
+ ++ | RemoteRoot
+ ++ | RequestRoot
+ ++ | Require
+ ++ | RIPCache
+ -- (1.1) | RootCertDuration
+ --(removed)| (RunAsUser) # present in 1.1
+ ++ | Satisfy
+ ++ | ServerAdmin
+ ++ | ServerBin
+ ++ | ServerCertificate
+ ++ | ServerKey
+ ++ | ServerRoot
+ -- (1.1) | ServerTokens
+ ++ | SetEnv
+ -- (1.2) | SSLListen
+ ++ | SSLPort
+ ++ | SystemGroup
+ ++ | TempDir
+ ++ | Timeout
+ -- (1.2) | UseNetworkDefault
+ ++ | User
+ ------------+----------------------------------------------------- \ No newline at end of file