[CC to ubuntu-users and xprint maintainer towards a common solution]
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Paul Hampson wrote:
Package: cups-pdf Version: 1.7.1-1 Severity: wishlist I'd just like to say I think the old default of $HOME/cups-pdf/ is better than $HOME/ because it means the output goes somewhere expected and _isolated_ from your other files. This is especially helpful when Windows is sending printjobs through with all kinds of unexpected filenames, and it's therefore much more unlikely to accidentally overwrite an unrelated file. (To be fair, I haven't checked if cups-pdf clobbers existing files) I don't understand what advantage this change brings, apart from the fact that Ubuntu suggested it?
The advantage is that documents get sent straight to a familiar folder, instead of a fuzzy-named cups-pdf; users won't necessarily associate the name of the back-end with the ability to print documents out or to the similarily-named subdirectory sitting in their home-directory.
In fairness, I think that CUPS-PDF and Xprint (or any PDF backend) should output to a common directory, which could be e.g. ~/Printouts or something similar. Then again, this would require teaching users where to find the PDF documentss which, by definition, is a bad idea; anything that is not self-evident from a layman user's point of view is simply not acceptable.
I'm hereby CC'ing the Ubuntu list and the Xprint maintainer for further input towards finding a common solution that will satisfy everyone. The CUPS-PDF upstream author is subscribed to this package's tracker and is welcome to comment as well.
For reference, I would like to bring up the following Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IdeaPool See the Graphics section of that page for the relevant discussion. -- Martin-Eric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi _______________________________________________ Xprint mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/xprint
