Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [Gimp-print-devel] An introduction to gnome-print (fwd)

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> However, when you start looking at supporting the printing needs
> of business users the GNOME printer-driver-in-a-DSO design falls
> apart.  Accounting, quotas, resource management, etc. all become
> more difficult because all of the low-level printing details are
> being managed by GNOME-print and are not accessable to non-GNOME
> apps.  I would be surprised if even 1% of the available free
> software is based on GNOME, so this limitation is significant
> and won't go away.

You have still not proved that accounting is going to be an issue;
You need printer support for accurrate quotas and accurrate
accounting.  Any other approach is just a failed attempt at feeling
cozy. 

I guess "resource management" is another new topic that I do not
understand.  I wonder what resource you are managing here, and "etc"
really does not cut it as a complain.

Note: we do have a postscript driver.  If it such big of an issue for
offices that want to have "etc" features in place, just disable
anything but the Postscript driver (I guess Postscript is very magical
in this regard, because it can do a lot of "etc").

Miguel.