Re: Gnome-print usage
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. :)
> 1) Addition of odd/even/reverse printing options to the default
> gnome-print dialog
> 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?
> 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 ;)
kr,
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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