Ok, great. I will take on the Linux printer settings dialog and also implement a cross-platform mechanism for suppressing the printer dialog. This will cause printing to use the last settings (or default settings).
This is an important feature for using Chromium in a kiosk or Point-Of- Sale terminal, which we are doing. Currently, we've had to run a Firefox window in the background to handle the print queue, while the front-end uses the fast JavaScript of Chromium. Does anyone have suggestions on where to put the suppress print dialog setting? In Firefox, this is done in about:config. Since it's typically a developer feature, I want to hide it from the casual user. Also, since security is important, I need to make sure a website cannot install a malicious script that can change the value of this setting and start sending print jobs. Any help is greatly appreciated. Andy P.S. I've read all the developer docs regarding development process, coding style, and so on. On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Tony Chang wrote: > I believe modifying printer settings just hasn't been implemented > yet on Linux. If you would like to make a patch to do this, that > would be great since there's no one actively working on Linux > printing right now. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Andy Ames <a...@amesgames.net> wrote: > I noticed that the Linux printing implementation is not going > through the same PrintingContext framework. > > Anyone know why? > > I am interested in modifying the source to add the ability to > suppress printing in a cross-platform way. It looks like > PrintJobWorker::GetSettings implements a flag for whether or not the > user should be asked for printer settings. Depending on the value of > this flag, either PrintingContext::UseDefaultSettings or > PrintingContext::AskUserForSettings is called. This code seems to > only be executed on Mac and Windows, not on Linux. > > Is there a known barrier to getting the linux printing flow, which > is described at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ > LinuxPrinting, to work with UseDefaultSettings and AskUserForSettings? > > Thanks in advance. > > Andy > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
