On 08/13/09 15:13, William Yang wrote: > I'm still watching the list :) > > I haven't tried Firefox 3.5 yet as it is somewhat low on my priorities list > right now. From what I remember GTK+ itself had to be compiled with CUPS > present, so I'm not sure if it worked for you because you used my build of > 3.0.8 instead of Alfred's (3.0.8 is the last build I recall doing). > However, in response to Ghee's comment, I'm not sure why it would cause > applications to crash...I have not seen that happen in my experience. " > If > you meant that not having CUPS installed would cause a crash, that is > possible, " This is what I meant when the system has not CUPS installed and so only triggered when the CUPS print plugin is available on the system.
-Ghee > although I thought what happened was that the CUPS print plugin > was unavailable without causing a crash. > > The other thing was that the published CUPS backend on releases.mozilla.org > is from an older vresion of GTK than what is being bundled with the Firefox > 3.5 contrib builds now. It is possible that plugging in used to work but > wouldn't now because of that. > > William > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alfred.Peng at Sun.COM [mailto:Alfred.Peng at Sun.COM] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:39 PM >> To: nicole at thatsnice.org >> Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org; William Yang >> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Differences in CUPS detection between >> Firefox 3.0.8& Firefox 3.5.1/3.5.2 >> >> Hi Nic, >> >> Not sure we can help for this issue. >> >> The test we've done with regards to Firefox printing is for papi >> backend. Several papi bugs were fixed in Solaris 10U6 and Firefox papi >> backend started to work after that. Since CUPS isn't shipped with >> Solaris 10, we haven't done any test for the Firefox cups backend >> support yet. >> >> As I know, Will should have certain experience to deploy Firefox >> 3.0.x/3.5.x on Solaris 10 with CUPS printing enabled. That's the reason >> we provided the cups backend binary: >> http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/solaris10/. CC him to this list (he >> might be busy lately btw). >> >> Cheers, >> -Alfred >> >> On 08/13/09 08:45 AM, nicole at thatsnice.org wrote: >> >>> Hello SUN Desktop Beijing Team, >>> I'm an admin on a small mixed network. We're trying to deploy the >>> latest version of Firefox to our sparc Solaris 10 machines and noticed >>> that neither 3.5.2, nor 3.5.1 are detecting our cups install. >>> Firefox 3.0.8 was able to detect it and populate the print diolog if >>> we put the cups lib first in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but this doesn't do >>> anything for 3.5.2 or 3.5.1 . The odd thing is that if I update the >>> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 's with gtk-print-backends = "cups,lpr,file" lpr, and >>> file will show up in print diolog, but not the CUPS print queues. If >>> I remove the lpr and file options, the print diolog will launch, but >>> the 'print' option will be greyed out, and there are no options to >>> select from. >>> >>> It looks like it's just not finding the CUPS install for whatever >>> reason. Were there different compile flags used for 3.08& >>> 3.5.2/3.5.1 ? Any ideas what might have changed, or directions you >>> could point me in for further info? >>> >>> ~> uname -a >>> SunOS chaffinch 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,A70 >>> >>> CUPS 1.3.9 >>> >>> Thank you so much for keeping the SPARC firefox contrib packages >>> updated, they're very helpful! >>> >>> -Nic >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090813/343c18df/attachment.html>
