On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 14:28, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:06:42PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > Colin and I have been busy hacking the cups module in libgnomeprint to > > make it use libgnomecups, which allows us to display and update printer > > state information in the print dialog. > > So I'm not completely up on the complete printing architecture of GNOME, so > this may be a stupid question, but why have both libgnomeprint and > libgnomecups? What purpose does it serve to abstract the CUPS API, and > just the CUPS API, in a library? Two reasons: 1) It's a more GNOME-y API, using GObject, etc. 2) It implements polling. > Would those abstractions or enhancements > be better off in the CUPS API itself? The polling could go into the CUPS API in theory. But it'd be trickier because CUPS can't directly use the glib mainloop, etc.
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