Re: printkit source related reorganization
julun <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:15:25 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbeos.printing |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, Ithamar R. Adema schrieb: > Hi, > >> Maybe someone could share some screenshot of the BeOS R5 Postscript driver >> PPD configuration window? >> This window show up when you *add* a new postscript printer, and allow the >> use to customize the PPD-defined settings for his printer. >> I don't have access to a BeOS machine right now to take such shot, >> unfortunatly. > > And it might be helpful to take a look at a PPD config tab in ZETA as > well, as it used quite an acceptable method of making sure that there is > an easy (both from code and user point of view) way of editing the PPD > settings. > > As these settings aren't (or at least were not) consistent over PPDs, > something along those lines might not be too bad a solution ;) > > (and yes, I'm still lurking, though I haven't spend time on real Haiku > development for _months_ unfortunately). we should also look how others handle it, i really like whats done by the gnome folks. Take a look at this (somewhere in the middle of the page): http://www.xaraxtreme.org/developers/documentation/xaralx_printing_alternatives.html Even though printer dialogs are the most inconsistent things on Linux. Regards, Karsten