Re: Gnome-print usage
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:22:53 +0100 (CET), "Chipzz" <chipzz@ULYSSIS.Org>
said:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > Secondly, here's an overview of functionally I'd like to see (and will do
> > the work myself, this is a high-priority task for me ;)
>
> Really nice to see someone saying he is going to contribute patches
> instead of whining about what's not there. :)
Thanks :)
> > 2) Addition of ability to install ppd from a driver disk in
> > gnome-cups-manager
>
> Well, since you're using debian, wouldn't make a lot more sense to use
> apt for that?
A lot of new printer driver disks now come with ppds on - I'd like to be
able to provide the user with the option of using these.
> > There are also a few default gnome programs that don't use
> > gnome-print/the gnome-print dialog or have broken printing:
> >
> > GIMP: doesn't use gnome-print dialogs and does some printer management.
> > Why? What's going on here?
>
> It uses something called gimp-print.
> I don't know the technical details, but I suppose this is because they
> have different needs (being a very heavy graphical program).
> Also, the GIMP has traditionally been a GTK+ only program, and some of
> the GIMP developers oppose using GNOME dependencies. So it's also a
> political issue.
>
> I suggest you contact one of the gimp mailing lists
> (http://www.gimp.org/mailing_list.html), but make sure not to start a
> GTK+ vs GNOME flamewar ;)
hmm. yes i just did a bit of reading, seems there's some issues need to
be worked out here (gimp-print might work better for colour inkjets)
Perhaps the safest path, politically speaking, would be to provide an
alternative Print plugin that uses the gnome-print system.
I think I might need to leave this one till a little later :(
Rob Taylor
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