[108] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: New Athena printing UIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 5 14:03:27 2000
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 04:54:52 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:03:23 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/5 Beland wrote:
> I think we can track which printers a person has jobs on by putting
> recently-used printers in a dotfile in the user's home directory. We
> could cause these printers to be deleted from the list either by
> watching the active jobs for the user or setting a timeout to poll
> lpq. (This has some drawbacks; see below.)
Any sort of system that does this will work best with either a
modified /usr/athena/bin/lpr or a wrapper script /usr/athena/bin/lpr.
How do people feel about that? Personally I think it is fine. The
modifications would of course be some sort of generic notification to
the rest of the system, not neccessarily GNOME specific.
~/.recent-printers is the most obvious solution; it has some minor issues.
Using a system like GConf would be cleaner but would mean that lpr
would know about GNOME in some way.
tibbetts
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