FC3 and printing from Mozilla

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Sep 27 12:27:16 UTC 2004


Yes. Why is xprint so evil? I if works, it must be better with
half-broken than 100% broken?

man, 27.09.2004 kl. 14.26 skrev Rex Dieter:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> I'm using mozilla-1.7.3 on my box right now (and without xprint), the 
> only printer listed for me is "Postscript/default".  Am I missing something?
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> The only responses I've ever seen/heard from redhat regarding xprint is 
> a curt replies like yours.
> 
> I don't know about your deja-vu, but all I know is that xprint has 
> worked for me personally going back to the mozilla-1.4 days.  What's 
> troublesome to me is that I see no harm in simply enabling xprint 
> support in the mozilla builds, since it does nothing if xprint isn't 
> installed and running, yet redhat *still* refuses to even allow that.
> 
> -- Rex
> 





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