Re: [Nautilus-list] Desktop icons representing installed printers

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

I have never seen this. I don't think anybody is working on such a feature
at this time. Maybe somebody mocked up screenshots in the past?

John

on 4/23/01 7:54 PM, Ben FrantzDale at bfrantzdale HMC Edu wrote:

> I've lost the URL, but I've seen screenshots that indicate Nautilus will
> have a thumbnail view of printers that has the print queue all there...
> 
> --Ben
> 
> 
> On 23 Apr 2001 21:57:15 -0400, Jeffrey Ingber wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a suggestion for Nautilus:
>> 
>> It would be great to have desktop icons that represent printers
>> installed on the system.  If one were
>> to open the printer icon, they would be able to view pending jobs with
>> other data such as the owner, time, job ID, etc., and might have the
>> ability to manipulate the contents of the spool (ie. cancelling a print
>> job, for instance).  Maybe also place some kind of icon (like the
>> awards) over the printer if the paper-out signal is recieved.
>> 
>> Another suggestion would be to have a "Network Neighborhood" of sorts
>> that would allow a user to browse Samba shares and map shares to folders
>> on the desktop.  This would probably be a helluva lot of work though.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
>> 
>> "Windows 95 is a 32-bit shell for a 16-bit extension to an
>> 8-bit  operating system designed for a 4-bit microprocessor
>> by a 2-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."
>> 
>> 
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