Re: printkit source related reorganization

julun <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:15:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.printing
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