Till
Goffioul Michael wrote:
IMHO, what's really missing in LPRng to build a decent support in KDEPrint is an API and a library. Any command/operation has to be made by executing a program and parsing its output, so this heavily relies on a specific syntax. This is a pain from the client programmer point of view. That's why CUPS support is much more developed in KDEPrint: it provides a full API. Another problem with LPRng is the *wide* variety of driver systems existing out there, each one using its own files, setup, DB syntax or whatever. Again here, CUPS is more easy to use: you can request the server for the driver file, and it's always a PPD file. Presenting print options is then quite easy. LPRng is probably a wonderful print spooler for the command-line, but it's really difficult to build a modern GUI on top of it. The first thing I would expect from LPRng is an API.
Michael.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 04:45
To: Till Kamppeter
Cc: For users and developers of KDEPrint, the KDE printing architecture
Subject: Re: HELP WANTED: kdeprint with GNUlpr
I actually did some work on this a while ago.
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