Re: Print dialogue

[frank brierley <frank_n_brierley yahoo com au>]

Andreas,

This I will certainly try...

Thanks

Frank

On 28 Jan 2004 23:44:25 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca> 
wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 11:11, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:50, frank brierley wrote:
> > > > Andreas,
> > > >
> > > > The main application I'm printing from is gnumeric so maybe waiting 
> > for
> > > > the current development version (the one you've recently modified) 
> > to
> > > > reach a production release will solve some of these problems.
> > > >
> > > > Is it gnumeric or gnome-print responsible for displaying the 
> > printers
> > > > from the lpd spooler?
> > >
> > > This is 100% gnome-print's responsibility. I'll have a look how this
> > > could be reasonably added. The -l issue should be esily fixable. You 
> > may
> > > want to file some requests in bugzilla.gnome.org (gnumeric and
> > > gnome-print as products).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately gnome-print is already in feature freeze for Gnome 2.6 
> > but
> > > some of these are really bugs!
> > >
> > > The development version of gnumeric is the gnome 2.6 version of 
> > gnumeric
> > > so it may take at least a few months for it to be released.
>
> I thought about this a bit more and in fact we have a file that can sort
> of function as configuration file for you, as a minimum you can insert
> the -l you need:
>
> Have a look in
> /usr/share/libgnomeprint/2.4.2/models/GNOME-GENERIC-PS.xml
> of course the version number in the path may vary.
>
> There you will find a section:
>         <Item Id="custom">
>           <Name>Custom</Name>
>           <Key Id="Module" Value="libgnomeprint-custom.so" />
>           <Option Id="Command" Default="lpr" Type="String" />
>         </Item>
>
> If you insert -l behind the lpr on the fourth line, then it will
> automatically appear in the dailog.
>
> I cannot test it but you may want to try to add a text like
>         <Item Id="fac">
>           <Name>Fac</Name>
>           <Key Id="Module" Value="libgnomeprint-custom.so" />
>           <Option Id="Command" Default="lpr -l -Pfac" Type="String" />
>         </Item>
>
> immediately following the above custom entry, this will give you another
> choice which may (untested!) print using lpr -l -Pfac.
>
> good luck
>
> Andreas