Re: Gtk+ printing dialog highlevel thoughts

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 23:51 -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:39:13AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:39 -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
> > > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > > (cc:ing some people who I think might be interested in this)
> > > > 	
> > > > I've just started looking at doing a printing dialog for Gtk+
> > > > 2.10. For some background thoughts from owen, see: 
> > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-October/msg00024.html
> > > 
> > > FWIW, both Windows and MacOS X provide APIs for accessing the list of
> > > available printers, etc., and the CUPS API is also available on
> > > MacOS X.  WRT Linux printing, CUPS is pretty much ubiquitous, and
> > > failing that you can standardize on PAPI (the SourceForge library
> > > apparently supports CUPS, LPR, and Solaris lp - check with Norm
> > > Jacobs for details...)
> > 
> > I think relying on CUPS might be good enough. Opinions on this? Does
> > e.g. solaris ship CUPS?
> 
> So older systems like Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX 11.00, 11.11, AIX 5.1, 5.2
> will require CUPS to be installed? Ugh.

I guess we could do a very simple traditional "enter lpr command
line"-entry style dialog for systems without cups. 

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