Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born
On Nov 27, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> And why not use GST backends instead of rewriting them? They can be
> get as an independent module from GNOME CVS. Perhaps I should package
> them separately to show that they're not stuck with GNOME System
> Tools, so they can also be used to write a KDE frontend. I do't like
> to see so much people reinventing the wheel. GST also needs an util
> for configuring the printers, so any help will be welcomed. And, FYI,
> current GST developers are using Debian for its development, so we
> have a lot of "power" among them ;)
At least in the case of foomatic-gui, the backend is pretty universal;
all it needs are foomatic-printjob and foomatic-configure in the path
(although it does need to reload CUPS if it's not in the path; CUPS
dumps raw PostScript to a new printer until it's reloaded :-/).
Chris
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