On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Krishna Dagli wrote:
> getting all application to show the same number of printers and that
> too in the same order across all application, without hacking each of
> the configuration/rc files of each appliaction?
Not in Gnome at least. KDE has very good printer integration with apps.
Gnome uses CUPS directly, and cups is so generic that it's impossible to
do anything specific. Getting a fax printer is impossible. Each
application needs to know how to support it.
> Applications like
> OpenOffice
Has a weird list of printers, and faxing is disabled by default, has to
be enabled for each user who uses it.
> Acroread
> mozilla
both these require you to pass the printer command line when you want to
print. not something an end user should do.
> All normal office productivity application. I use Debian, how
> simple it is to do this say in Redhat or any other distribution
It's a pain.
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