Could you please elaborate on this sentence,
"Real CUPS support will be there in KDE 2.1.",
Please? Are you saying that there are {re-}architecting a complete,
competitive with Win__ & MacOS printing architecture for KDE?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Till Kamppeter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Cups-Driver: Remarks
>
> You can change the default settings whenever you want:
>
> Either start KUPS and right-click on your printer. In the pop-up menu
> click on "Configure Printer" and set up the desired options.
>
> Or go into the web interface (http://localhost:631/) choose "Printers",
> go to the entry of the desired printer and there click on "Configure
> Printer". On the screen appearing then adjust the options. Not that you
> must click on "Continue" in every group where you do a change.
>
> Note: Numerical options are only supported by KUPS, XPP, and QTCUPS.
>
> GNOME and KDE are not adapted to CUPS yet. The printer lists are taken
> from the /etc/printcap file and we ship CUPS configured to generate an
> /etc/printcap file for compatibility. Printouts are sent with the "lpr"
> command which is provided by CUPS in system with CUPS installed. The
> options in the KDE printing dialog are the ones which are also available
> in the LPD printing system.
>
> The situation of GNOME is similar.
>
> Real CUPS support will be there in KDE 2.1.
>
> Till
>
>
> Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
> >
> > Hi Till!
> >
> > Some remarks to the configure options:
> > The default for my gimp-print printer setting
> > is somewhat strange: 720 DPI driver, 180x180DPI physical.
> > It would be more logical to have 720 DPI both (I would
> > prefer 360 DPI both by default).
> >
> > One wish: As every printer has dirrerent resolutions there
> > should either be a possibility to copy printer entries and
> > only rename the printer name as a first step or (would be
> > MUCH better IMHO) to be able to change it before printing.
> > Of course this is application dependent, so programs like
> > acroread and wordperfect will never have it :-(
> >
> > I just hope that at least the Gnome and KDE will support all
> > preferences of the CUPS API if Cups is installed. (Currently
> > KDE is a little bit ahead, but only with the paper size, which
> > is uninteresting, more interesting would be dither, resolution,
> > paper type, image type and so on).
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Reinhard Katzmann
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