I'd politely suggest that while I agree with you completely, George, this is neither the time nor the place to kvetch about the limitations of gnome-print in specific or unix printing in general. Luis
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 05:00, George Farris wrote: > This is just plain wrong. Gnome-print should show the queues that are > on your machine so one can print with. One should almost never have to > type a queue name in. Many home users have more than one printer. > > This small attention to detail is the stuff that makes the desktop nice > to use for average users. I mean what queue name do I type in??? No > one knows unless they know to look in /etc/printcap, just doesn't cut > it. > > Imagine setting up GNOME on a corporate desktop, how does the secretary > find a different printer? Not by typing in a print queue name thats for > sure. > > > On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 08:52, Mark Neill wrote: > > > > This is an lpr limitation. Typical home users aren't going to have > > multiple printer queues, they are going to have one default queue. No > > queue specification is necessary in this case. > > > > If a user is savvy enough to have set up multiple usable print queues, I > > expect they are savvy enough to append -Pqueuename to the lpr command to > > print to the non-default printer. But that's just my assumption > > > -- > George Farris - VE7FRG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Luis Villa Ximian Bugmaster "Quality is an amazing bridge because it is universal in its language." Thomas Corcoran _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
