Re: [Gnome-print] First attempt at integrating Omni with Gnome

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ximian com>]

Hello!

This is cool!
As much I would like to plug that into gnome 1.4 framework, I am afraid that
the full thing has to wait for gnome 2.0 with full featured print configuration
library. The current configuration mechanism in gnome-print simply is not
suitable for any fine-grained work.
Nevertheless, I am looking, how much needed information can be plugged into
existing code. In minimal we can ship customized Omni printer definition files
with gnome-print, and encode additional information into drivers, like:
driver "Omni:EPSON Stylus 740:720dpi"
Of course, that is inflexible and dumb, but helps us to keep going, without
breaking the gnome-print code freeze.

Best wishes and thanks for your work,
Lauris Kaplinski

On 06 Feb 2001 20:41:40 +0000, Mark Hamzy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here are two files that integrate Omni with gnome-print.  I also put
> omni in gnome-print.c
> 
> Here are some issues that I came across.
>     - How can you access GnomePrintOmniClass from a GnomePrintContext?
>     - We need to merge with you on form names.  We have 118 forms.
>     - We need the device name to use (ex: Epson Stylus Color 760).
>     - We need our job properties besides the form and resolution to be
> passed in.
>     - The resolution needs to be able to handle non square resolutions
> (ex: 144 x 72).
>     - It looks like the page size is the full page size.  It does not
> account for unprintable areas.
> 
> Mark