FC3 and printing from Mozilla

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Mon Sep 27 07:31:43 UTC 2004


Rex Dieter wrote:

> Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
>
>> Not having support for multiple printers (unless you know the syntax of
>> lpr) is really a huge handicap for end-user-friendlyness IMO
>
>
> I thought I'd at leaste mention that by using xprint 
> (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/)
> one can get this feature *now*.

Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0PR1, and Thunderbird 0.8 query cups for the 
printer list.  All of which are in rawhide.  Now.  Without xprint.  See 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251754 for the bug and all 
its wondrous details.

> Unfortunately, redhat has been reluctant to provide the support in 
> their build of mozilla for it to work.


I'd say s/reluctant/strongly opposed/ to xprint but that has been 
discussed elsewhere and no need for déjà vu all over again.





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