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Re: Printing and Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Dec 24 01:14:16 2007
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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:13:55 -0600
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: Daniel Jared Dominguez <danjared@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 22:00 -0500, Daniel Jared Dominguez wrote:
>
>>> Would this mean that you couldn't (easily) print to machines on a "far
>>> away" subnet?
>>>
>>> -Tim Abbott
>>>
>> No, it's possible. See Wide-Area Bonjour (not sure what the non-Apple
>> name is).
>>
>
> The issue is that we don't have a lot of control over the UI. When I go
> to print a mail message in GNOME (and presumably on OSX), I am offered a
> list of printers. That list can either be a few dozen long, making it
> hard to find the printers nearest me, or it can be just the nearby
> printers, making it hard to print in a far away location. There's no
> way to make it offer a short list with the option to expand to a long
> list.
>
>
Hmm...I wonder if there's something you can hook into to adjust the
default printer right before the printer window opens - if you combine
that with Tim's idea of prepending each printer with some kind of
location identifier, you could have it automatically scroll to the
section of printers near where the machine is. (Or alternatively, have a
mechanism to automatically set the default printer based on IP address?)
- Evan
