On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:50, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> Not having ever used xpp, can anyone compare/contrast it's features and
> capabilities vs. the KDE print system? I'm a huge advocate of the KDE system
> since it wraps a very easy to use and polished interface around a lot of
> neat features (print to ps, pdf, email, fax etc) as well as providing all of
> the capabilities of the printer right in front of me.
>
KDE's setup is nice, and if you're a KDE fan then go forth and be happy.
The problem with KDE is that everything in it relies on the rest of it
being around, so if you want to use kprinter you've got to wait while it
loads DCOP and a ton of other stuff.
>From a standing start on my system, running XFce and clicking the Cancel
button as soon as I can:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 850MHz
...
bogomips : 1684.27
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 375 297 77 0 22
128
-/+ buffers/cache: 146 229
Swap: 753 0 753
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ time kprinter
...
1.14user 0.16system 0:29.09elapsed 4%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (7647major+4573minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ time xpp
0.04user 0.02system 0:02.72elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (670major+232minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> Looking at the screenshots on the xpp homepage, my first impression of the
> interface was that it wasn't as polished or user-friendly as KDE's printing
> system. However, that's just a first impression....
>
Think of it as providing the same functions without requiring KDE.
Another thing to realize is that there's a difference between eye-candy
and user-friendly polish. xpp uses a widget set that is guaranteed to be
available on any X-Windows system, which is not something one can say
for Qt. It may not look as sexy, but it will work.
Besides, do you want to print in thirty seconds or three seconds?
Granted it should take less time if I ran KDE as my desktop environment,
but I'd be interested to see if a KDE user with similar machine specs
gets three second response time. My gut feeling from the times I have
run KDE is that time kprinter will still take five or six seconds to
load.
...
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