Re: Things and such

El Lunes, 12 de Julio de 2004 23:59, Robert L Krawitz escribió:
>    From: =?iso-8859-15?q?N=E9stor_D=EDaz_Valencia?=
> <nestordiaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:56:13 +0200
>
>    2) Nestor, thanks for initiating discussion with the Inkscape folks.
>     Your answers were accurate.  Can you continue to be the interface
>    point, at least until I'm back?
>
>    They are very busy featuring freezeing and bug hunting for next
>    release 0.39.  Maybe better wait.
>
> Sure.
>
>    Gutenprint everybody?
>
>    > 4) About the database request: I'd like to put all of the printers
>    >    into our database rather than telling people to refer to the NEWS
>    >    file.  This could be done with some kind of aliasing and a minor
>    >    API change to get the actual printer name, perhaps.
>
>    My database request for having an easy and comprenhensive search
>    method for future or already users. You mean dumping from the
>    applications database to a SQL command?
>
> What I'm thinking is that all of the printers that we know about
> should be accessible via the menus in the GIMP plugin or CUPS or
> Foomatic.  This does, of course, mean PPD file bloat.

But this means install before knowing it works.
If I am a regular user I will check the site for my printer before installing 
or upgrading.  Just my opinion.
Néstor


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