Re: [Evolution] Buglets in RC1 build (+cvs.2001.11.02.08.57) I've seen

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

I'd politely suggest that while I agree with you completely, George,
this is neither the time nor the place to kvetch about the limitations
of gnome-print in specific or unix printing in general.
Luis

On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 05:00, George Farris wrote:
> This is just plain wrong.  Gnome-print should show the queues that are
> on your machine so one can print with.  One should almost never have to
> type a queue name in.  Many home users have more than one printer.
>
> This small attention to detail is the stuff that makes the desktop nice
> to use for average users.  I mean what queue name do I type in???  No
> one knows unless they know to look in /etc/printcap, just doesn't cut
> it.
>
> Imagine setting up GNOME on a corporate desktop, how does the secretary
> find a different printer?  Not by typing in a print queue name thats for
> sure.
>
>
> On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 08:52, Mark Neill wrote:
> > This is an lpr limitation.  Typical home users aren't going to have
> > multiple printer queues, they are going to have one default queue.  No
> > queue specification is necessary in this case.
> >
> > If a user is savvy enough to have set up multiple usable print queues, I
> > expect they are savvy enough to append -Pqueuename to the lpr command to
> > print to the non-default printer.  But that's just my assumption
>
>
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