Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

Mystilleef <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jul 2005 02:11:50 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.print
Message-ID <9605403b050713231157944765__34662.9879241393$1121434086$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/14/05, Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 07:58 +0200, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 19:56 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:20 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the schedule I thought I'd missed the time period left f=
or
> > > > new modules, but looking again it appears we still have a small amo=
unt
> > > > of time.  I'd like to propose eggcups for 2.12.
> > >
> > > Opinions?
> >
> > I think it would be a good idea if you could give us a short descriptio=
n
> > of what it is.
>=20
> It does several things, but the task most interesting in my opinion is
> that it monitors your print jobs and tells you when they're done.
> Basically you print something, an icon appears, it greys out when all
> your jobs are done.  You can click on it to find out their status.
>=20
> For more information:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-July/msg00126.html
>=20
> > What does it do beyond what gnome-print does?
>=20
> I'm not sure how to answer that since I don't know exactly what you're
> referring to by "gnome-print".  There's no such module...

I think he is referring to libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui. It seems
your library performs almost all the function those libraries perform.
I may be wrong.