Bug 118924
Summary: | RFE: graphical print client | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox> |
Component: | system-config-printer | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | djuran, mattdm, mitr |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2009-10-21 15:47:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Tammy Fox
2004-03-22 20:53:39 UTC
Is this being passed around a bit on the fedora-config-list to see if anyone wants to work on it more? It'd be great if it expanded into a printer option configuration tool, like kprinter. worth investingating - he claims he has a gtk2 port in cvs somewhere. http://gtklp.sourceforge.net/index.html currently gtk1 - but for fc3 might be gtk2 option. packages of the gtk1 client built for fc2t2 are here: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/RPMS/fc2/ I know it cannot be included, I'm not asking that it would be - but it's a good place to look - and yes it does print correctly and set options with reasonable sanity. What about gnome-cups-manager ? ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/GNOME/sources/gnome-cups-manager/0.17/ Isn't that for *configuring* queues, not for printing to them? [I haven't looked in detail yet.] What we're looking for in this RFE is a graphical application to act like lpr(1). yes, it's for configuring queues - which system-config-printers does just fine. qtcups builds and runs on fc2 just fine - I know it's deprecated - but it's a damn-sight faster than kprinter is. For now I'll just install qtcups and tell people to use that for non-kde apps. This is something to think about for the future, though. Any reason not to move the existing /usr/share/printconf/util/print.py to /usr/bin/system-select-printer and tell people to use it for non-kde apps? It does the essential task -- allows you to select a print queue to print to in a pull-down menu, is faster than kprinter as well, and would already be installed for most systems. it doesn't do nearly enough. It'd be very limiting for most users and I think frustrating. I think I'd rather see nothing than something that had that few options. In RHEL4 I still see no obvious way for a user to, from his default desktop, configure printer options e.g. setting a printer to use duplex. What I'm looking for is a graphical tool, that can do the same thing as the command line tool lpoptions can. I suppose kprinter would solve my problem, but shouldn't there be something slightly more integrated with the default gnome desktop? I think the GTK+ print dialog solves this really. |