On Tuesday 21 February 2006 16:14, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> John R. Culleton wrote:
>
> This is not a matter of "insisting on GNOME" and non-libgnomeprint unix
> printing, was, indeed, "broke." Libgnomeprint is a small and poorly
> named (as it doesn't require GNOME) library that provides immensive
> improvements to printing, improving the functionality for the users of
> AbiWord. Libgnomeprint is so useful, in fact, that it's being
> considered to be integrated into new releases of GTK+ (I believe). As a
> slackware user myself, I am aware of the removal of GNOME. A suggestion
> to include libgnomeprint and the related libraries, I feel, would not be
> an overwhelming request, because they do not bring in the entire GNOME
> tree. Furthermore, if you want to use the fully GNOME version of
> AbiWord, there are several distributions of GNOME for Slackware that
> will allow you to use the fully-GNOME version or the GTK+-only version
> equally well.
>
> Thanks for using AbiWord!
Well now I am confused. Lots of other programs have printing
functions, implemented by interfacing with either cups or
lprng, depending on which package is in use at the particular
site. I have no idea what you mean about printing being poorly
implemented on Unix. It always worked for me.
Lpr worked for me and when everybody "improved"
things I went to lprng and when once again things were "improved"
I went to cups. But the joker in the deck is that for me lpr
worked just fine. Now what is so sexy about libgnomeprint I
don't know. Does it spool and print pages? Heck that problem was
solved a generation ago. I worked with lots of Xenix based
systems in the 1980s and none had problems with printing.
Some had terminals hanging off of them, some were standalone.
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