[159] in Athena User Interface
Re: Revised plan for printing GUIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 12 20:06:42 2000
Message-Id: <200006130006.UAA10472@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:49:12 EDT."
<200006122349.TAA20696@No-Whammies.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:06:37 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
A couple of comments/changes:
On 6/12 "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> In any case, the applet will determine the file's type, decide whether
> to print interpreted document or source code, depending on user
> configuration, and dispatch to the appropriate action:
Before this you should talk about drag and drop printing (it seems
like you just forgot to). "the file" is not yet defined.
> [We may actually be able to borrow MIME decoding stuff from GNOME
> and/or KDE file managers or other places.]
There is mime decoding stuff in gnome-libs, IIRC.
> =========================================
>
> PRINTING CONFIGURATION
>
>
> Current printer: ajax (w20-575)
>
> [Change current printer to...]
> [Make choice persistent] (not recommended)
Are you sure that "Make choice persistent" is a button and not a check
box?
> * PRINT JOB TRACKING *
>
> We will create an applet for users to track print jobs once they've
> been sent to the queue. It will be launched after a DND print request
> by default.
Are you sure that you want a seperate capplet?
> =============================================================================
> ======
>
> ATHENA PRINT JOB TRACKING APPLET
>
>
> Default printer for this host: ajax (w20-575)
>
>
> [Show all known jobs for beland]
> [Show all jobs for printer...]
> [Show all jobs on all printers
> with known jobs for beland]
How are the first and third choices different?
> Notes:
>
> "beland" should be set by $USER or some similar mechanism.
There is a standard glib way of doing this.
> * GENERAL NOTES *
>
> DND printing will only work from GNOME-aware applications (which
> fortunately includes gmc, the interim file manager).
You should point out that the lpr wrapper will mean that (nearly)
every job will be successfully tracked.
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