Jon Glass wrote: > I remember many years ago, in the first years of the Mac, that I was using a > Xerox dedicated desktop publishing system. It was wonderfully WSIWYG, and it > had the feature of dragging files to the printer icon to print. At the time, > I thought it was a wonderful feature, and wished that somebody else would > imitate this feature.
Ahh, the old Xerox Stars...we had a bunch of them, and I was trying to snag one of those wonderful (for the time) 400 dpi laser printers that came with 'em. We had a bunch of those when I started working here (1990). They were cool. > I suppose that X has gotten rid of these things? I've never read anything > discussing the titlebar icons... (and I would be happy if they are still > there.) Desktop printers aren't (yet) back into OSX, mostly because printing in general has been rather massively in flux with OSX. It wasn't until 10.2 that the printing subsystem started to make any sense, with the advent of CUPS. CUPS is rather like desktop printers, (other than the 'desktop' part :-/ in that you can go into print Center and see the status of jobs, adding printers is very much like adding a desktop printer. Adding an icon on the desktop to point to that particular print queue should be doable. Alas, the nearest OSX machine I can play with is at home. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
