print-dialog

[Ken Crandall]

Actually, what would be really nice would be a command-line interface to
this similar to what QTCups used to be.  It would then allow for *any*
non-gnome app to utilize the printing infrastructure in a sane way.

Cheers,
Ken

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:31, Michael Knepher wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 19:35 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:17:48 -0700
> > > From: Michael Knepher <mknepher at bluethingy.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Fedora-desktop-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 15
> > > To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
> > > 	<fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com>
> > > Message-ID: <1092683869.3772.3.camel at lionel-hutz.darnell.group>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 19:21 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > > > > Cups is still the backend, but it's being integrated with dbus to
> > > > > provide better usability. A screenshot of the new print dialog is
> > > > > attached. Very close to KDE's. 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm... when will this reach yum? Or will it be part of fc3 in october?
> > > > Couldn't see the screenshot - it was scrubbed by the list...
> > > 
> > > Try http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/Print_Dialog.png
> > > 
> > > It's in rawhide, for FC3 release. 
> > 
> > Looks nice. Will this be in both moz and epiphany? You say it is in
> > Rawhide, can you please give me an URL for the RPM, so that I may
> > download it? If all works well, then I am considering to install this on
> > all the FC2 machines at the school i administer, and switch to epiphany
> > as default browser.
> > 
> > Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
> 
> Epiphany and mozilla don't yet use it. Hopefully they'll be able to hack
> it in for FC3 (I can't actually print from the rawhide epiphany right
> now - I'd better go poke bugzilla and see if a bug's been filed). I
> don't know how many packages are required for the new printing system
> (I'm running a full rawhide system), but it would probably involve a lot
> of GNOME-2.7.x and the hal/dbus stuff, which are pretty quick-moving
> targets right now in rawhide. For the most part, things seem fairly
> stable, but I don't know if it's worth just trying to grab that. If
> you're able to run a test system, with all the brokenness that may
> entail, I'd recommend installing fc3t1 on a system and grab all the
> latest updates from rawhide using yum.

-- 
Ken Crandall <crandall at redhat.com>
Red Hat, Inc.
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