On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:26 +0100, Sven de Marothy wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 23:20, Owen Taylor wrote: > >On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:33 +0100, Sven de Marothy wrote: > >> Basically, we'd like to have Cairo integrated with gnome-print. If > I've > >> understood it correctly (and please, correct me if I'm wrong) the > >> long-term plan for gnome-print is in this direction too? > > >Long term plan is libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui go away, and > >the print dialog moves to GTK+. > > Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not sure if I made my questions clear, > though.. Let me elaborate: > > Does this mean only widgets will be provided by Gnome in the future, > leaving it to the application to stitch together job control (e.g. CUPS) > and rendering (e.g. Cairo)? That doesn't seem like an improvement over > the current gnome-print. Cairo will be an integral part of GTK+ as of GTK+-2.8. (Mid 2005) I'm highly skeptical that job control needs to be part of the application API set. Yes, you need stuff like "How big is the page the user selected". You don't need "enumerate jobs", "cancel job", etc. Regards, Owen
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