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... cups, atleast with the cups-bsd package under debian, replaces lpr completely. Any app that's capable of printing to lpr is instantly capable of printing to a cups printer. You can even choose between cups printers the same as you would with lpr. > 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! The 'kprinter' dialog is nice, but in apps with their own print dialog it becomes redundant and confusing. > Yes! gnome-vfs should implement the fish protocol (ssh), more ease for > the common user! ;) gnome-vfs implements sftp://, which has the added benefit that it doesn't (I believe) require a UNIX system on the other end, just an sftp server. Is there something that fish:// does that sftp:// doesn't? -- Fred Smith <fps dividedsky net> Divided Sky Internet
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