Re: Print dialog

[Ed Catmur <ed catmur co uk>]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 16:24 +0000, Xaero wrote:
> Hi,
> I have noticed that all gtk applications have their own print dialog,
> so that many (if not all) apps lack of some driver functionalities.
> In example, firefox lets me choose only a few options (color-b/w and
> the paper's dimensions)... 
> For thease reasons, I have to install many cups printers with
> different layouts.
> Kde (and qt apps in general) and windows have a standard print dialog,
> in which there are all printer's options...
> What do you think about it? 

GTK+ has a print system, including standard dialogs:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-High-level-Printing-API.html
It's fairly recent, so not all apps use it yet.  In particular, Firefox
isn't a proper GTK+ application.

Ed