Subject: Re: ability to not to use gnome print under gnome build
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 09:35:52 CST
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > May be I was understood wrong. I proposed to add another menu item to
> >File
> >menu, called "print directly", that will pop the gtk dialog up. I didn't
> >propse to hack gnome-print dialog to also allow printing via plain unix
> >code,
> >and I didn't propose to remove gnome-print dialog too. I was suggesting to
> >add
> >another menu item (may be even hidden for latin1 locales) to popup gtk
> >dialog.
> >
> > User should have a choice IMO. May be some bug will popup in gnome-print
> >that will prevent the use of gnome build for some users. Just writing
> >20-line
> >patch to fix this potential problem might be reasonable idea.
>
> This is exactly what I meant by "I don't want it." The user should not be
> given a choice to "print non-iso8895-1" and a choice to just "print." The
> user should see one choice: print. If you want "print" to rely on our PS
> code instead of gnome-print, well that is a different (and better, IMO)
> argument that I have not seen made here so far.
gnome-print also has some advantages over plain ps generation, so it would be
nice if gnome build provided access to it. And plain ps generation can
probably have some advantages over gnome-print (works for CJK and contains
fewer bugs).
So both ways of printing should be available to user IMO. The user will
learn what way works better for him. We are not M$ anyway.
> Dom
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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