[Desktop_architects] Presentation slides - with attached templates

[Norm Jacobs]

Till Kamppeter wrote:

>
> Jody, Matthias, what are the plans of improving the GNOME/GTK printing 
> dialog and printing with GNOME/GTK in general? What can we expect in 
> the next version of GNOME.
>
> The best would be to have a dialog supporting all CUPS functionality 
> and using the CUPS API. It should list printers, show options 
> according to the printer's PPD, show CUPS-specific pre-processing 
> options, like N-up, ...
>
The FSG PAPI, which works with CUPS, provides a more abstract view of 
interaction with the
print service.  Also, I have been looking at representing more of the 
PPD file data using
PAPI/IPP attributes so papiPrinterQuery() results return a digested 
version of capabilities
that can be used to create print panels.  As you pointed out in our 
discussion earlier
today, PPD files can still use some extension.

       -Norm