On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > 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 > I have a PIII 750Mhz (Mobile) and it took about the same time for kprinter as you had for xpp (of course I have to hit cancel which adds mousing time to the mix). I actually find kprinter to be very useful, and the ability to add filters was very cool.
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