Re: GNOME printing model

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> Any chance GNOME will follow this lead (at least in concept)?  A
> print preview would be fabulous, and possibly critical for
> certain apps.  It would be very handy to be able to generate this
> preview automatically.  Of course, Windows doesn't really have
> any integrated support for postscript, whereas GNOME will, so
> GNOME probably won't have to do as much monkeying around with
> abstractions to get the same results.  Just move the ps around.

WE have discussed this.  There is definetly an approach that can be
tried, but it is not as simple to implement. 

The idea was to virtualize the GdkDrawables and allow people to create
new types of drawables.  We would be specifically interested in
creating a Printing Drawable.

Miguel.