On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 17:52, Mark Neill wrote: > > o File...Print shows 'lpr' but doesn't show any of the queue names I've > > set up using PrintTool. Shouldn't it, for consistency sake? For new > > users, this would be confusing I believe. I want to print to my queue > > LJ4, but all that is shown is 'lpr'. If I print to the 'lpr', it *does* > > print to the LJ4 queue, but it isn't intuitive. > > This is an lpr limitation. Typical home users aren't going to have > multiple printer queues, they are going to have one default queue. No > queue specification is necessary in this case. > > If a user is savvy enough to have set up multiple usable print queues, I > expect they are savvy enough to append -Pqueuename to the lpr command to > print to the non-default printer. But that's just my assumption
Except that multiple queues is a good way to have multiple printer configurations (single- or double sided printing, color or B/W, and so on). -- Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend. Mr. Jan Morén Dept. of Cognitive Science Tel. +46-046 222 8588 Kungshuset, Lund Fax. +46-046 222 9758 S-222 22 Lund, Sweden _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
