Re: GNOME and printing



On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 22:09, LJ wrote:

we have gnome-print and gimp-print for our printing needs.... who
*needs* CUPS?

 
> Hello!
> 
> I think that GNOME should provide support for CUPS which seems to become 
> the standard printing system for *ix and Linux (there is already strong 
> support for CUPS in KDE). This could be achieved by adding two features 
> to GNOME:
> 
> 1. CUPS options could be included into the GNOME printing dialog, 
> resulting in something like XPP or QtCUPS.
> 
> 2. There should be some print queue manager in GNOME, preferably using 
> CUPS features.
> 
> If someone is interested (I'm not a very experienced programmer), here 
> are some helpful links:
> [1] http://www.cups.org/ - general information about CUPS
> [2] http://cups.sourceforge.net/xpp/ - XPP, a printing dialog
> [3] http://cups.sourceforge.net/qtcups/index.html - QtCUPS, a printing 
> dialog
> [4] http://pt-printing.sourceforge.net/ - GTK print queue manager
> [5] http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~sirtobi/gtklp/ - GTK printing dialog
> 
> Since [4] and [5] are GTK programs, they could probably be ported to 
> GNOME or used within GNOME applications.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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