[113] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: New Athena printing UIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 5 17:38:34 2000
Message-Id: <200006052138.RAA03578@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>,
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU,
tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:12:55 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:38:29 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/5 Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> 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.
>
> I think this will turn out to be harder than it looks:
>
> * If a user prints a job with valid tickets but invalid
> tokens, it will fail. Which is okay if it fails gracefully.
I don't see how this is really a problem for tracking which printers
people have jobs on.
> * If a job finishes after the user logs out, printers won't
> get removed from the list.
Certainly they will. The applet that sits there and lpq's all the
printers in the list periodically can purge printers where the user
has no jobs from the list.
> * If a user prints to a printer name which is only valid on a
> particular machine, that will confuse things.
Does this really happen? That will confuse things. Could you explain
further? I have never seen this situation, is it common?
tibbetts
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