[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Regarding the print support idea(GSoC)

[Vamsi Krishna Davuluri]

The link you gave didn't work, so I checked this page
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost
I have gone through security models listed, umm ... was there anything
specific I was to look into?


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

> 2009/3/18 Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <vamsi.davuluri at gmail.com>
>
>> I'd grant them only if the user is the owner of that specific document or
>> is master root. This will be most useful in case the machine acts as a cups
>> server and a request comes from the network, we could see that other than
>> the local master, no one else on the network has access to that particular
>> job, or stop that printing event from taking place.
>>
>> btw thought of another thing, when the print button is clicked in an
>> activity, the request metadata (object) is sent to the journal, but the
>> journal doesnt have to immediately take over control, instead  within the
>> activity a pop up comes which says 'print jobs in queue('this can be closed,
>> or clicked to go to the journal where the job can be canceled, or started)
>> and when loging in into sugar, if pending jobs are there again a
>> notification is displayed, and if a print job is of a particular activity,
>> and they are pending, and if the same activity is opened again it
>> notification is displayed.
>>
>
> You might want to review the OLPC project (and therefore sugar's) security
> model: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=bitfrost.txt
>
>
>
> --
> Luke Faraone
> http://luke.faraone.cc
>
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