[111] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: New Athena printing UIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Mon Jun 5 15:32:36 2000
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@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 15:32:32 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
> Someone please let me know if there are printer people I should bug
> about this who aren't on this list.
I believe that cfox is now the printer person (from the server side).
Mike Whitson (who is now, oddly enough, Helixcode's release engineer)
did most of MIT's Unix development for the current Athena clients.
I wrote the current Mac client. I don't know who wrote the current
Windows client.
> We would be deliberately not be supporting multiple copies and e-mail
> notification, among the many other flags for lpr, which is what would
> presumably be behind the "built-in" command.
Number of copies is a per-job thing, so I agree with your conclusion.
> Personally, I think the default should be zephyr notification, no
> header. [...]
I don't think that it is our place to change the current policy.
I don't know who sets it, but all of the other clients adhere to it.
If it is decided that the policy be changed, then all the clients,
including ours, get changed.
> * PRINT JOB TRACKING *
This is harder than it looks, and I suspect we will run out of time
before we can solve this problem in acceptably-full generality. I gave
up on this once already, for the mac client, and am quite ready to give
up again.
On printing different types of files:
It should not be hard at all to cook up a shellscript that recognizes
the top 50 file types and does The Right Thing (which may be to say
"PowerPoint 3000 documents cannot be printed on Athena. They are too
tacky.").
yak
