From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: RFE: request for a drag and drop desktop printer icon, which would print text and graphics files by dragging an icon on top of it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login 2.Open a test editor or sord procesor, or graphics editing program 3.Load a file and print it from the application. Actual Results: item prints OK, but one has to load an application just print one sincle document or image.. Expected Results: 1) login to desktop 2) see printer icon on desktop 3) open a folder with default associated items (*,dvi, *.jpg. *.tif, *.bmp, etc..).Drag the icon on top of the priter icon. 4) Job sent to spooler and printed Additional info: Have see this in olcer versions of another linux distro. Red Hat should be capable of providing a similar user-friendly desktop (KDE *and* Gnome),
Sounds reasonable.
It seems that we have this now, in current rawhide. "desktop-printing" package I think.