Re: Gnome Print

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:22, Sensei wrote:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > ya; i guess they changed names to libgnomeprint when gnome2 came out.
> 
> > not sure what you mean by this.  any app using libgnomeprint should show
> > a list of configured printers.  gnome-cups-manager lets you manage
> > those.
> 
> That's one point: they must be written thinking about libgnomeprint... 
> and it's not so good. Think about acrobat reader... think about 
> openoffice...

if those apps don't integrate with the desktop, then that's *their*
problem, not GNOME's.

for what it's worth, the GNOME-ified OOo (Ximian and Fedora use it,
iirc) integrate with gnomeprint.

> 
> The other point is about a ``general view'': it should embed cups and 
> lp, so noone will know if it's a cups printer or a lp one... moreover, 
> it can replace both, or better, replace lp with itself :) try to use as 
> a printer ``kprinter''... that's a good start!

it should already abstract this.  at least, I've never had to deal with
it being one or the other.

> 
> > yes, this indeed sucks.  i would love to see more proliferation of
> > zeroconf, slp, and other technologies in the desktop, especially when it
> > comes to printing and remote volumes...
> 
> Yes! gnome-vfs should implement the fish protocol (ssh), more ease for 
> the common user! ;)

gnome-vfs *does* implement it, but it's not called 'fish'.  (Where the
hell did KDE get that name, anyhow?)  it's ssh or sftp in gnome-vfs.

> 
> > if you write up a list of specific requirements and needs, it would
> > greatly assist the developers in making future versions workable.  it's
> > like that many of the libgnomeprint developers don't know what is needed
> > outside of their personal experience.  of course, they could also use
> > help coding, I'm sure...;-)
> 
> Good to know! I'll write some specifications...

Great.  That's much much more useful than "look at some other apps and
copy them."

-- 
Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.