On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 15:23 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:03:02PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since retrieval of printer attributes when gnome_cups_printer_get is > > called is now asynchronous, this poses a problem - callers don't know > > when the attributes (description, URI, etc) are valid. > > > > The attached patch adds an API method to know when the attributes have > > been set for the first time. What we do inside eggcups when a new > > printer is detected is call gnome_cups_printer_get, attach to its > > attributes-changed callback, and at that point we know the attributes > > are valid (in particular the URI). > > Do we want something like that in gnomeprint too ? It's actually not necessary in libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui - if we don't have the attributes yet, then we just display empty strings to the user until they come in. We will always have the printer name, which is what we really need. > Seems reasonable. Please notify me when it goes in. I'll patch > gnome-cups-manager and bump the version req. Ok, it's in now.
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