Re: State of the project.
Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.print |
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| Message-ID | <1080414458.21517.7.camel@localhost> |
> Jody, what's you take on this? I would like to know the answer > too:). Having gnome-cups-manager to work well with 2.6 is one thing, > to have cups integrated as part of gnome is another thing. After all, > libgnomeprint[ui] are the core printing libraries. What are the TODO > to have CUPS properly integrated (even just as one of the backend) and > allow for other backend? > > -Ghee Well, I think that this is an important task, I mean: We (the gnome users/developers) are allways saying that we are "Usability Pioneers", and all of we want is to be more usable for people who don't know anything about computers... well, I assume that nobody (that hasn't anything to do with computers) must know about XD2, or gnome-cups-manager, the only thing that they want is to print, and when they'll use Gnome, they'll see a print dialago that ask for what printer to use by typing the appropiate lpr command... well, lpr is a 70's design tool, anybody must know how to use it, and I think that we should try to solve this issue for the user. I'm not trying to be rude, so excuse me if I look like that, the only thing that I want is to improve Gnome to the highest rate possible. Thanks, Alberto Ruiz.