Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [Gimp-print-devel] An introduction to gnome-print (fwd)

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> Well, I wish you good luck, then.  However, please accept my
> advice (from developing PCL drivers for 12 years) that any driver
> you are likely to develop will not handle all printers or provide
> optimal output.

I was already expecting that.  From previous advise from Theo de Raadt
on a similar but different topic.  

> "Corporate" users want accounting, security, quotas, encryption, etc.
> Sending raw print data to the printing system prevents that
> functionality from being realized, making wider acceptance of GNOME,
> Linux, etc. more difficult.

I think you are pre-drowning on a glass of water.  Lets tackle
problems as they arrive instead of giving up a priory because of an
--honestly-- rather obscure setup that I can not even figure why it
even matters.

> As for scalability, adding DSOs doesn't mean your solution is
> scalable.  How many DSOs are required to implement N drivers?  N
> DSOs?  And what about non-GNOME applications?  What do *those*
> applications do for printing?!?

You lost me with the acronym.  I cant follow this at all.

Miguel;.