Re: libgnomeprint cups backend vs libgnomecups

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 14:28, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:06:42PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > Colin and I have been busy hacking the cups module in libgnomeprint to
> > make it use libgnomecups, which allows us to display and update printer
> > state information in the print dialog. 
> 
> So I'm not completely up on the complete printing architecture of GNOME, so
> this may be a stupid question, but why have both libgnomeprint and
> libgnomecups?  What purpose does it serve to abstract the CUPS API, and
> just the CUPS API, in a library?  

Two reasons:
1) It's a more GNOME-y API, using GObject, etc.
2) It implements polling.

> Would those abstractions or enhancements
> be better off in the CUPS API itself?

The polling could go into the CUPS API in theory.  But it'd be trickier
because CUPS can't directly use the glib mainloop, etc.

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