Re: Gnome-print usage

[Ian McKellar <yakk@yakk.net>]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 23:46, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 21:28, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > 1) Addition of odd/even/reverse printing options to the default
> > gnome-print dialog
> 
> If you are going to use CUPS, then you could apply the Ximian Desktop 2
> patches to libgnomeprint, which make the print dialogs a fair bit nicer
> (but assume that CUPS is being used).  IIRC, this is one of the extra
> options.

Hmm, would it make sense for us to package libgnomeprintui and
libgnomeprintui-cups (with the ximian patches)? They should have the
same ABI so it should be easy to drop the appropriate one in depending
on your preference and print-system.

> > GIMP: doesn't use gnome-print dialogs and does some printer management.
> > Why? What's going on here?
> 
> GIMP doesn't use any GNOME libraries, it only relies upon GTK+.

However, printing is a plugin, so it should be feasible to implement a
gnome-print based gimp printing plugin. Printing on Windows is a
separate plugin for example.

Ian