Re: [Gnome-print] Future Changes in Gnome Print.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> 	  Sounds nice. I assume these will only be for non-postscript
> printers, leaving PPD/GPr to deal with the vagiaries of postscript
> printing ?

Maybe we shoudl "import" the PPD features into our format.  The reason
being that our dialog code still needs to edit those properties.

Or adapt PPD for the non-Postscript case, and provide those files as
well

> 	  It seems that the GUID is fast becoming a fashionable
> idiosyncracy. Everywhere people seem to propose it without any clear
> rational or consideration of the alternatives. It would seem to me [ from
> my not copious knowledge of printers and versions ] that a far more
> auspicious scheme would be to have a human readable non-fixed length
> string there eg.

The idea is to have a unique string.  And we need to create those
unique strings for "customized" versions of the printer.  For
instance, say you choose the default paper size to A4, we want to have
an association like this:

	(printing-mechanism, driver-id)


Miguel.