On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:22, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> So, why don't we have a printer icon on the desktop? After all we have a
> trashcan and a floppy icon too. In these days where CUPS is ubiquitous,
> that shouldn't pose much of a problem. That way you could drag a arbitrary
> file to the printer icon and let it be printed by whatever app is
> registered to handle that file type. No need to clutter the Nautilus
> toolbar with this.
Some points:
1) CUPS isn't ubiquitous. I doubt it even has 50% of the print server
market on Unix systems
2) XD2 provides printers:/// over CUPS[1]
3) The drag-to-printers will (as far as I know) require a change to the
MIME system. I really hope that this is done for G2.4.
Ross
[1] Last month or so I started hacking on this too, but never finished
it. I'm kinda of glad...
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