Re: Killing views [Was: Dealing with files in Gnome]

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 19:06, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:07, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 April 2003 17:13, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, this is definately true. This also doesn't change the fact that on Linux 
> > systems I pretty much think that CUPS is better and easier to administrate 
> > than LprNG + Apsfilter and imo a good direction as printing solution. If 
> > there are other solutions for commercial other *nix'es then fine.
> 
> CUPS then has to actually be in use on the majority of Free OS's then
> for it to be The GNOME Printing System.  RedHat used LPRng by default
> until RH9, Slackware(iirc) just switched to lprng from an older system,
> etc.

Nope, RH has been using CUPS as the default since 7.3.

> Still doesn't change the fact that GNOME just shouldn't care what
> underlying print spooler is used - if necessary, just use
> components/plugins for specialized features in a generic, neutral
> interface.  Then I can mix-and-match spool systems based on actual
> needs, not an artificial spooler popularity contest.  ^,^

RH already has a "Print" icon on the desktop. Copied Tim on it, he's
responsible for it iirc :)

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>