On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 10:56 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > I think relying on CUPS might be good enough. Opinions on this? Does > > > e.g. solaris ship CUPS? > > > > Solaris ships PAPI. Doesn't ship CUPS. > > Hmm, yet another library. Easily mistaken with PAPI the "Performance > Application Programming Interface" library too.
I'm not an expert on PAPI but I can find you one if needed. Here's more info on PAPI: http://www.openprinting.org/moin.cgi/OpenPrinting/PAPI Note that libgnomeprint currently has a papi module (written by Ximian and Sun). > So, exactly what does PAPI give us? Is it good enough to allow us to > write the gtk+ print dialog with it? Does it e.g. expose PPD file info > like custom UI for printer features? See the API spec linked from the above page: http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openprinting/PAPI-specification.pdf Laca _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list