Git commit 0cb8343c2cd7107bb77d2d6f587ef72c2bd9f7bd by Aleix Pol, on behalf of Burkhard L?ck. Committed on 15/09/2010 at 20:50. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'.
glossary update by our famous Yuri Chornoivan, thanks a lot CCMAIL:yurchor at ukr.net svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/; revision=1175763 M +1 -1 doc/glossary/checkxrefs M +433 -63 doc/glossary/index.docbook M +137 -579 doc/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook http://commits.kde.org/khelpcenter/0cb8343c2cd7107bb77d2d6f587ef72c2bd9f7bd diff --git a/doc/glossary/checkxrefs b/doc/glossary/checkxrefs index 6da64c1..0805ec6 100755 --- a/doc/glossary/checkxrefs +++ b/doc/glossary/checkxrefs @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #!/bin/sh DEFINED_ENTRIES=`sed -ne "s^.*<glossentry id=\"\(.*\)\">.*^\1^p" *.docbook` -REFERENCED_ENTRIES=`sed -ne "s^.*<glossseealso otherterm=\"\(.*\)\">.*^\1^p" *.docbook | unique` +REFERENCED_ENTRIES=`sed -ne "s^.*<glossseealso otherterm=\"\(.*\)\">.*^\1^p" *.docbook | uniq` # Check for entries which are referenced but not defined. for ENTRY in $REFERENCED_ENTRIES; do diff --git a/doc/glossary/index.docbook b/doc/glossary/index.docbook index c4f49c8..f42cc17 100644 --- a/doc/glossary/index.docbook +++ b/doc/glossary/index.docbook @@ -3,17 +3,95 @@ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE"> <!ENTITY glossary-kdeprinting SYSTEM "kdeprintingglossary.docbook"> +<!ENTITY newpara "</p><p>"> +<!ENTITY linkstart "<a href="> +<!ENTITY linkmid ' target="_top">'> +<!ENTITY linkend "</a>"> - +<!ENTITY emstart '<span class="emphasis"><em>' > +<!ENTITY emend '</em></span>'> +<!-- acronym, systemitem unchanged +itemizedlist+listitem changed to simple para --> ]> -<glossary id="glossary"> - -&glossary-kdeprinting; +<glossary lang="&language;" id="glossary"> <glossdiv id="glossdiv-technologies"> <title>Technologies</title> + <glossentry id="gloss-akonadi"> + <glossterm>Akonadi</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>The data storage access mechanism for all PIM (Personal Information Manager) data in &kde; SC 4. One single + storage and retrieval system allows efficiency and extensibility not possible under &kde; 3, where each PIM component had + its own system. Note that use of Akonadi does not change data storage formats (vcard, iCalendar, mbox, maildir etc.) - it + just provides a new way of accessing and updating the data.&newpara; + The main reasons for design and development of Akonadi are of technical nature, ⪚ having a unique way to access PIM-data (contacts, calendars, emails..) from different applications (⪚ &kmail;, &kword; &etc;), thus eliminating the need to write similar code here and there.&newpara; + Another goal is to de-couple GUI applications like &kmail; from the direct access to external resources like mail-servers - which was a major reason for bug-reports/wishes with regard to performance/responsiveness in the past.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/"&linkmid;Akonadi for KDE's PIM&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akonadi"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Akonadi&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi"&linkmid;Techbase - Akonadi&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-arts"> + <glossterm>ARts</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>The sound framework in &kde; 2 and 3. Its single-tasking nature caused problems when two sources of sound were encountered. In the &plasma; desktop it is replaced by Phonon.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARts"&linkmid; Wikipedia: ARts&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://www.arts-project.org"&linkmid;ARts home page&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-phonon">Phonon</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-dbus"> + <glossterm>D-Bus</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>D-Bus or Desktop Bus is an inter-service messaging system. Developed by &RedHat;, it was heavily influenced by &kde; 3 DCOP, which it supersedes. Most POSIX operating systems support D-Bus, and a port for Windows exists. It is used by Qt 4 and GNOME.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/"&linkmid;FreeDesktop.org: What is D-Bus?&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus"&linkmid;Wikipedia: D-Bus&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-dcop">&DCOP;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gnome">GNOME</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qt">&Qt;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-dcop"> + <glossterm>DCOP</glossterm> + <glossdef><para><acronym>DCOP</acronym>, which stands for Desktop COmmunication Protocol, is a light-weight interprocess and software componentry communication system used in &kde; 3. Replaced with &DBus; in &kde; SC 4.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCOP"&linkmid;Wikipedia: DCOP&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-dbus">D-Bus</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-flake"> + <glossterm>Flake</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Flake is a programming library to be used in &koffice; 2. Functionally, it provides Shapes to display content and Tools to manipulate content. Shapes can be zoomed or rotated and can be grouped to work as a single Shape, around which text flow is possible.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Flake"&linkmid;KOffice Wiki: Flake&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-ghns"> + <glossterm>Get Hot New Stuff</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>&emstart;G&emend;et &emstart;H&emend;ot &emstart;N&emend;ew &emstart;S&emend;tuff (GHNS) is an open standard that makes it easy for users to download and install various extensions for their applications. Our implementation of GHNS is used by &plasma; (for example to get new desktop themes), and by many applications and widgets.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://ghns.freedesktop.org"&linkmid;Home of GHNS&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://lwn.net/Articles/227855/"&linkmid;An article on GHNS in &kde; SC 4&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-ghnsaccr"> + <glossterm>GHNS</glossterm> + <glossdef><para><acronym>GHNS</acronym> is the acronym of Get Hot New Stuff.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghns">Get Hot New Stuff</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-ioslave"> <glossterm><acronym>IO</acronym> Slave</glossterm> <glossdef><para><acronym>IO</acronym> Slaves enable &kde; applications to @@ -24,6 +102,16 @@ <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-khtml"> + <glossterm>KHTML</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>KHTML is the &HTML; rendering engine for the &kde; &plasma; desktop, as used by the &konqueror; browser. It also provides a KPart that enables all &kde; applications to display web content. A new introduction, &Qt; WebKit is also for Plasma and other application development.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror">&konqueror;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-webkit">WebKit</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-kio"> <glossterm><acronym>KIO</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef><para>The &kde; Input/Output system which makes use of so-called @@ -33,6 +121,12 @@ Slave</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-kiosk"> + <glossterm>Kiosk</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Kiosk is a framework for restricting user capabilities on a &kde; platform system, ideal for use in locked-down environments such as Internet caf?s. It is present in &kde; 3 and &kde; 4, but the adminisration tool, <application>Kiosktool</application> is &kde; 3 only. It can be used to configure &kde; 4 applicationss, or kiosk configurations can be maintained by editing config files manually.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-kparts"> <glossterm>KParts</glossterm> <glossdef><para>KParts is an embedding technology which allows &kde; @@ -43,23 +137,71 @@ Slave</glossseealso> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-ksycoca"> <glossterm><acronym>KSycoca</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para><acronym>KSycoca</acronym> (&kde; <emphasis>Sy</emphasis>stem - <emphasis>Co</emphasis>nfiguration <emphasis>Ca</emphasis>che) is a + <glossdef><para><acronym>KSycoca</acronym> (&kde; &emstart;Sy&emend;stem + &emstart;Co&emend;nfiguration &emstart;Ca&emend;che) is a configuration cache which, for example, guarantees fast access to the menu entries.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-nepomuk"> + <glossterm>Nepomuk</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Nepomuk is the acronym of &emstart;N&emend;etworked &emstart;E&emend;nvironment for &emstart;P&emend;ersonalized, &emstart;O&emend;ntology-based &emstart;M&emend;anagement of &emstart;U&emend;nified &emstart;K&emend;nowledge. Nepomuk aims to remove artificial barriers between information to allow dynamic classification, organization and presentation of data to the user. Whether downloaded from the Internet, received in an email or scribbled in a note, information is globally searchable and tagged with intelligent data.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_desktop"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Semantic Desktop&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework)"&linkmid;Wikipedia: NEPOMUK framework&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/"&linkmid;NEPOMUK website&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://nepomuk.kde.org/discover/user"&linkmid;NEPOMUK KDE&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Nepomuk"&linkmid;Userbase Nepomuk page&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-phonon"> + <glossterm>Phonon</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A cross-platform multimedia API, interfacing with existing frameworks, such as gstreamer and xine engines. &kde; 2 and 3 depended on aRts for sound. Phonon replaces it.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon_(KDE)"&linkmid; Wikipedia: Phonon (KDE)&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://phonon.kde.org"&linkmid;Phonon website&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-arts">&arts;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-solid"> + <glossterm>Solid</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Solid provides a single API for hardware management. Hardware is grouped into 'domains'. Since the backends for Solid are pluggable, Solid helps application developers write less code, and have it platform independent.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://solid.kde.org"&linkmid;Discover Solid&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-threadweaver"> + <glossterm>Threadweaver</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>This thread programming library spreads work among multiple-core processors where available, prioritizing them before queuing them for execution. ThreadWeaver provides a high-level job interface for multithreaded programming.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/apidocs/apidox-kde-4.0/kdelibs-apidocs/threadweaver/html/Why.html"&linkmid;Why Multithreading?&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-webkit"> + <glossterm>WebKit</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>HTML rendering engine, originating from a fork of KHTML. Adopted by <trademark>Apple</trademark> and developed for <trademark>Safari</trademark>. Webkit brings the whole functionality back to &kde; SC 4, where it is available through &Qt;.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://webkit.org/"&linkmid;WebKit home page&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webkit"&linkmid;Wikipedia: WebKit&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">KHTML</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> </glossdiv> - <glossdiv id="glossdiv-xfree86"> - <title>XFree86</title> + <glossdiv id="glossdiv-xorg"> + <title>X.Org</title> <glossentry id="gloss-antialiasing"> <glossterm>Antialiasing</glossterm> <glossdef><para>If mentioned in context with &kde;, anti-aliasing often means - the smoothing of the fonts visible on the screen. &Qt; version 2.3.0 - or higher used together with XFree86 4.x makes this possible under &kde; + the smoothing of the fonts visible on the screen. &Qt; version 3.3 + or higher used together with X.Org server makes this possible under &kde; as well.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qt">&Qt;</glossseealso> @@ -80,6 +222,17 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossdiv id="glossdiv-applications"> <title>Applications</title> + <glossentry id="gloss-dolphin"> + <glossterm>Dolphin</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>The default file manager in &kde; SC 4. It has a side panel (Places), but navigation is mainly by the 'breadcrumb' trail above the main window. Split windows are possible, and views can be applied to individual windows. Mounting and umounting <acronym>USB</acronym> devices can be done in the side panel. Other directories can be added to the Places panel. A Tree view is also possible.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(software)"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Dolphin&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://introducingkde4.blogspot.com/2007/12/dolphin.html"&linkmid;Introducing KDE 4 Blog - Dolphin&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/File_Management"&linkmid;Userbase: File Management Tutorial&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror">&konqueror;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-kbuildsycoca"> <glossterm><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glossterm> <glossdef><para><application>KBuildSycoca4</application> is a command line @@ -91,27 +244,94 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-systemsettings">&systemsettings;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-systemsettings"> - <glossterm>&systemsettings;</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>This is the project and filename of the &kde; control - center. &systemsettings; allows you to customize virtually - every configuration option of &kde;.</para> + <glossentry id="gloss-kinfocenter"> + <glossterm>KInfoCenter</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Kinfocenter originated as part of Kcontrol standing alone from KDE 3.1. In KDE SC 4 it is replaced by modules configured in System Settings, notably Solid, and is being reintroduced as an application in &kde; SC 4.5.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinfocenter"&linkmid;Wikipedia: KInfoCenter&linkend;</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-solid">Solid</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-systemsettings">&systemsettings;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-konqueror"> <glossterm>&konqueror;</glossterm> <glossdef><para>&konqueror; is a web browser, picture viewer, file manager and more, and a core part of the &kde; project. You can - find more information about &konqueror; at <ulink - url="http://www.konqueror.org";>www.konqueror.org</ulink>.</para> + find more information about &konqueror; at &linkstart;"http://www.konqueror.org"&linkmid;www.konqueror.org&linkend;.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-krunner"> + <glossterm>KRunner</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>The mini-command-line that is accessed from the Classic menu, the keyboard shortcut &Alt;+<keycap>F2</keycap>, or a right-click on the desktop. In &kde; SC 4 a partial name will display all possible matches.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Krunner"&linkmid;UserBase: KRunner Usage&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-kwin"> + <glossterm>KWin</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>KWin is the window manager. This is where window decorations can be changed and themes applied. &kde; SC 4 extends KWin to provide support for 3D Compositing effects on the desktop.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/KWin"&linkmid;UserBase: KWin&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-xserver">&X-Server;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-minicli"> + <glossterm>Mini-CLI</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Mini &emstart;C&emend;ommand &emstart;L&emend;ine &emstart;I&emend;nterface. Synonym to KRunner.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-krunner">KRunner</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-pager"> + <glossterm>Pager</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A pager is a small program or panel applet which shows the position of windows on your desktop and usually if you have several Virtual Desktops gives an overview over all.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kickoff">Kickoff</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kicker">Kicker</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-panel">Panel</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-virtualdesktops">Virtual Desktops</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-systemsettings"> + <glossterm>&systemsettings;</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>This is the project and filename of the &kde; control + center. &systemsettings; allows you to customize virtually + every configuration option of &kde;.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kinfocenter">KInfoCenter</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> <glossdiv id="glossdiv-desktop-terminology"> <title>Desktop Terminology</title> + <glossentry id="gloss-activities"> + <glossterm>Activities</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Activities are sets of &plasma; widgets that have their own wallpaper&newpara; + A bit like Virtual Desktops, but not quite. For example you have a "work activity" with commit rss feeds, a note with your TODO, a Folder View with your work related files, and a subtle wallpaper.&newpara; + Next to it, you have your freetime activity, with previews of family photos and dogs, rss feeds from your favorite blogs, a Folder View showing your movie collection, a twitter applet and of course that Iron Maiden wallpaper you have been loving since the early 80s.&newpara; + At 17:00 hours sharp you switch from the work activity to your freetime activity.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma"&linkmid;Plasma FAQ&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-virtualdesktops">Virtual Desktops</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-containment"> + <glossterm>Containment</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A Containment is a top level grouping of widgets. Each Containment manages the layout and configuration data of its set of widgets independently from other Containments.&newpara; + The end result is that you can group widgets within a Containment according to the significance to your working pattern, rather than by directory grouping.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma"&linkmid;Plasma FAQ&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-widget">Widget</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-draganddrop"> <glossterm>Drag and Drop</glossterm> <glossdef><para>This concept tries to replace many actions like copying @@ -122,32 +342,82 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror">&konqueror;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-extender"> + <glossterm>Extender</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Extenders are a special kind of popup that can grow out of a &plasma; panel for example. Extenders have detachable parts. Extenders are a new concept that arrived in &plasma; for &kde; 4.2. The Kuiserver (the interface that collects all long running jobs and puts them into one window) will make use of extenders so you can detach various jobs and monitor their progress separately.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma"&linkmid;Plasma FAQ&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-gnome"> + <glossterm><acronym>GNOME</acronym></glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para>&emstart;G&emend;NU &emstart;N&emend;etwork &emstart;O&emend;bject + &emstart;M&emend;odel &emstart;E&emend;nvironment, one of the + leading &UNIX; &GUI;s.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-gui"> <glossterm>&GUI;</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>G</emphasis>raphical - <emphasis>U</emphasis>ser <emphasis>I</emphasis>nterface. Every desktop + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;G&emend;raphical + &emstart;U&emend;ser &emstart;I&emend;nterface. Every desktop environment (like &kde;) is a &GUI;. Most &GUI;s feature mouse support and/or windows to manage the programs.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-homedirectory"> + <glossterm>Home Directory</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>That's the place in system, where all your files are kept. You can write your files outside of this folder, but all applications are configured to propose this folder as place to write your files to. And this is easier, when you are keeping your things here.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Home Directory&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-dolphin">&dolphin;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-kde"> <glossterm>&kde;</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <quote>K Desktop Environment</quote>, a leading &GUI; for &UNIX;-based systems. You can find more - detailed information at <ulink - url="http://www.kde.org";>www.kde.org</ulink>.</para> + detailed information at &linkstart; + "http://www.kde.org"&linkmid;www.kde.org&linkend;.&newpara; + &kde; is more than just software. It is a community made up of programmers, translators, contributors, artists, writers, distributors, and users from all over the world. Our international technology team is committed to creating the best free software for the desktop. And not only contributors, but users and fans of &kde; software can be found throughout the entire globe, giving help to other users, spreading the news, or just simply enjoying the experience.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-gnome"> - <glossterm><acronym>GNOME</acronym></glossterm> + <glossentry id="gloss-kicker"> + <glossterm><acronym>&kicker;</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef> - <para><emphasis>G</emphasis>NU <emphasis>N</emphasis>etwork <emphasis>O</emphasis>bject - <emphasis>M</emphasis>odel <emphasis>E</emphasis>nvironment, one of the - leading &UNIX; &GUI;s.</para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> + <para>In &kde; 3, the relocatable bar, usually at the bottom of the screen (sometimes called the Panel), on which application launchers, the Pager, and buttons for running applications reside.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-panel">Panel</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-kickoff"> + <glossterm><acronym>&kickoff;</acronym></glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para>In &kde; SC 4 (and some late versions of &kde; 3), a launch menu in which apps are sorted by functional group. 'Favorites' replaces the 'Most used applications' in Classic Menu, and applications can be added to it. Right-click also offers the possibility of adding applications to the desktop or panel. Rapid access to a less-used application can be by the search box. Other menus are being worked on, since &kde; SC 4 can be used with more than one launcher, should that be required.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html"&linkmid;Kickoff Sneak Preview&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pager">Pager</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-panel">Panel</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-oxygen"> + <glossterm><acronym>Oxygen</acronym></glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para>Oxygen is the default theme of &kde; SC 4. Designed to bring 'a breath of fresh air' to the desktop by removing the simplistic, cartoonish icons, and replacing them with a clean theme and photo-realistic icons. Oxygen uses a desaturated palette to avoid the icons becoming a distraction and uses detailed scalable graphics (SVG).&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Project"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Oxygen Project&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?cat=3"&linkmid;Oxygen Icons&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ksvg">KSVG</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-panel"> @@ -155,14 +425,51 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossdef><para>Refers to the panel which often resides at the bottom of the screen.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kicker">&kicker;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kickoff">&kickoff;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-plasma"> + <glossterm>Plasma</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>In &kde; SC 4 the &plasma; Desktop replaces KDesktop, &kicker; and the SuperKaramba widget engine. The applets are called Plasmoids, and range from informational widgets to mini-apps such as a calculator or dictionary. Widgets from other sources, such as SuperKaramba widgets or <trademark>Google</trademark> Gadgets are also supported.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(KDE)"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Plasma&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://plasma.kde.org/cms/1107/"&linkmid;Plasma website&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma"&linkmid;Plasma FAQ&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/TweakingPlasma"&linkmid;Tweaking Plasma&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kicker">&kicker;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-widget">Widget</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-ripping"> - <glossterm>ripping</glossterm> + <glossterm>Ripping</glossterm> <glossdef><para>The process of reading audio data from a &cdrom; and storing it on the hard disk.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-virtualdesktops"> + <glossterm>Virtual Desktops</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A popular concept of &UNIX; based window managers is the one of virtual desktops. This means you have not only one screen where you can place your windows on but several. When you switch to a different desktop (usually with a pager) you will only see the windows which you started on your new desktop or moved to it. A window can also be made "sticky" which means it appears on all virtual desktops.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma"&linkmid;Plasma FAQ&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kickoff">&kickoff;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pager">Pager</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-zui"> + <glossterm><acronym>ZUI</acronym></glossterm> + <glossdef><para>The Zooming User Interface.&newpara;By zooming out, users can get an overview of all the object groupings that they have made. These groupings may reflect the projects they are working on, be ways to keep different sets of files organized, etc. By hovering or clicking on one of these groups when zoomed out, users can either get a preview/snapshot of what is in the grouping, or zoom in on that grouping so that it is displayed full size on the physical screen.&newpara; + --Aaron Seigo&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma"&linkmid;Plasma FAQ&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ksvg">KSVG</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> </glossdiv> <glossdiv id="kde-development"> @@ -172,25 +479,68 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossdef><para>The &GUI; of &kde; is built on top of the &Qt; toolkit, which provides many graphical elements (so-called <quote>Widgets</quote>) which are used to construct the desktop. You - can find more information about &Qt; at <ulink - url="http://www.trolltech.com";>www.trolltech.com</ulink>.</para> + can find more information about &Qt; at &linkstart; + "http://qt.nokia.com/"&linkmid;http://qt.nokia.com/&linkend;.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-widget">Widget</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-git"> + <glossterm><acronym>Git</acronym></glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Git is a free and open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.&newpara; + Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.&newpara; + Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe.&newpara; + It was decided that Git will be the main version control system of &kde;, replacement of SVN. It has been already used for some &kde; project like Konversation and Amarok.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://git-scm.com/"&linkmid;Git Homepage&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-svn">SVN</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-i18n"> <glossterm>i18n</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <quote>internationalization</quote>. &kde; supports many different languages, and several i18n techniques make it easy to translate the &GUI; as well as the accompanying documents of &kde; into all these languages. More information about the - i18n process is available at <ulink - url="http://l10n.kde.org";>l10n.kde.org</ulink>.</para> + i18n process is available at &linkstart; + "http://l10n.kde.org"&linkmid;l10n.kde.org&linkend;.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-kross"> + <glossterm>Kross</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Kross is a scripting framework, enabling support for multiple scripting languages. A plugin system allows for the support of further languages in the future.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-kdom"> + <glossterm>KDOM</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A KPart module making KHTML <acronym>DOM</acronym> (&emstart;D&emend;ocument &emstart;O&emend;bject &emstart;M&emend;odel) rendering capabilities available to all applications. KSVG2 is built on KDOM for &kde; SC 4.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-khtml">KHTML</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-khtml">KSVG</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-kjs"> + <glossterm>KJS</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>&kde; platform's JavaScript engine.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-plasma">&plasma;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-ksvg"> + <glossterm>KSVG</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>KSVG enables support for scalable vector graphics in a KHTML browser. KSVG2 extends this for &kde; SC 4.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-khtml">KHTML</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-l10n"> <glossterm>l10n</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <quote>localization</quote>, the process @@ -199,6 +549,26 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-i18n">i18n</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-soprano"> + <glossterm>Soprano</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Soprano is a sub-project of Nepomuk, providing a repository for gathered information such as tags, ratings, &etc; This makes the information available to Strigi.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano_(KDE)"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Soprano&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-nepomuk">Nepomuk</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-strigi">Strigi</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-strigi"> + <glossterm>Strigi</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A deep-indexed search daemon, Strigi aims to be fast and light-weight. It also uses SHA-1 hash which will help in the identification of duplicate files.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigi"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Strigi&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-nepomuk">Nepomuk</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-soprano">Soprano</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-widget"> <glossterm>Widget</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Graphical elements like scrollbars, buttons or input @@ -208,36 +578,36 @@ otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glosssee <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-svn"> - <glossterm><acronym>SVN</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>Subversion</emphasis>, a version control system. - The <acronym>SVN</acronym> is a very elegant way of managing file -versions that allow more than one developer - to easily work on the same project. You can find a description of how to -get the latest (developer) version of the - &kde; sources via anonymous <acronym>SVN</acronym> on - <ulink -url="http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html";>http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html</ulink>. - More about <acronym>SVN</acronym> is available at <ulink -url="http://subversion.tigris.org/";>http://subversion.tigris.org/</ulink>. - - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-svn"> + <glossterm><acronym>SVN</acronym></glossterm> + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;Subversion&emend;, a version control system. The <acronym>SVN</acronym> is a very elegant way of managing file versions that allow more than one developer to easily work on the same project. You can find a description of how to get the latest (developer) version of the &kde; sources via anonymous <acronym>SVN</acronym> on &linkstart;"http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html"&linkmid;http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html&linkend;.&newpara; More about <acronym>SVN</acronym> is available at &linkstart;"http://subversion.tigris.org/"&linkmid;http://subversion.tigris.org/&linkend;.</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-git">Git</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="gloss-xmlgui"> + <glossterm>XMLGUI</glossterm> + <glossdef><para>A programmers' framework for designing the user interface. It is extensively used by KParts.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLGUI"&linkmid;Wikipedia: XMLGUI&linkend;&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Style_Sheets"&linkmid;Wikipedia: Qt Style Sheets&linkend;</para> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">Kparts</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qt">&Qt;</glossseealso> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> </glossdiv> <glossdiv id="glossdiv-misc"> <title>Miscellaneous</title> <glossentry id="gloss-rfc"> <glossterm><acronym>RFC</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para><emphasis>R</emphasis>equest <emphasis>F</emphasis>or - <emphasis>C</emphasis>omment. A common way to publish new protocol + <glossdef><para>&emstart;R&emend;equest &emstart;F&emend;or + &emstart;C&emend;omment. A common way to publish new protocol ideas or procedures for evaluation of the Internet community. Though <acronym>RFC</acronym>s are not mandatory, many applications try to - adhere to them, once they have been approved by the community. More - information about <acronym>RFC</acronym>s can be found at the - <ulink url="http://www.rfc-editor.org";>RFC Homepage</ulink>.</para> + adhere to them, once they have been approved by the community.&newpara; + More information about <acronym>RFC</acronym>s can be found at the + &linkstart;"http://www.rfc-editor.org"&linkmid;RFC Homepage&linkend;.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> @@ -246,31 +616,31 @@ url="http://subversion.tigris.org/";>http://subversion.tigris.org/</ulink>. <title>Various protocols</title> <glossentry id="gloss-smb"> <glossterm><acronym>SMB</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para><emphasis>S</emphasis>erver <emphasis>M</emphasis>essage - <emphasis>B</emphasis>lock. A network protocol used in &Microsoft; &Windows; + <glossdef><para>&emstart;S&emend;erver &emstart;M&emend;essage + &emstart;B&emend;lock. A network protocol used in &Microsoft; &Windows; networks to access the file systems of other computers.</para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"><acronym>IO</acronym> -Slave</glossseealso> + <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"><acronym>IO</acronym> Slave</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-irc"> <glossterm><acronym>IRC</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para><emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet <emphasis>R</emphasis>elay - <emphasis>C</emphasis>hat. A protocol defined in <acronym>RFC</acronym> + <glossdef><para>&emstart;I&emend;nternet &emstart;R&emend;elay + &emstart;C&emend;hat. A protocol defined in <acronym>RFC</acronym> 1459, which handles the specification to enable real-time text chat.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc"><acronym>RFC</acronym></glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-host"> - <glossterm>host</glossterm> + <glossterm>Host</glossterm> <glossdef><para>This can either be a name from your <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file (<systemitem class="systemname">mycomputer</systemitem>), - an Internet name (<systemitem -class="systemname">www.kde.org</systemitem>) or an IP-Address + an Internet name (<systemitem class="systemname">www.kde.org</systemitem>) or an IP-Address (<systemitem>192.168.0.10</systemitem>). </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> </glossdiv> + + &glossary-kdeprinting; </glossary> diff --git a/doc/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook b/doc/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook index 8c1bf0a..35cb1b9 100644 --- a/doc/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook +++ b/doc/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-acl"> <glossterm><acronym>ACLs</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>A</emphasis>ccess - <emphasis>C</emphasis>ontrol <emphasis>L</emphasis>ists; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;A&emend;ccess + &emstart;C&emend;ontrol &emstart;L&emend;ists; ACLs are used to check for the access by a given (authenticated) user. A first rough support for ACLs for printing is available from &CUPS;; this will be refined @@ -46,21 +46,13 @@ APSfilter calls "real filters" to do the jobs needed. It sends printjobs automatically through these other filters, based on an initial file-type analysis of the printfile. - It is written and maintained by Andreas Klemm. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + It is written and maintained by Andreas Klemm.&newpara; It is similar to Magicfilter and mostly uses Ghostscript for file conversions. Some Linux Distributions (like &SuSE;) use APSfilter, others Magicfilter (like &RedHat;), some have both for preference selection - (like *BSD). -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - &CUPS; has <emphasis>no</emphasis> need for APSfilter, + (like *BSD).&newpara; + &CUPS; has &emstart;no&emend; need for APSfilter, as it runs its own file type recognition (based on &MIME; types) and applies its own filtering logic.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso> @@ -100,12 +92,8 @@ <glossterm>BSD-style Printing</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Generic term for different variants of the traditional &UNIX; printing method. Its first version appeared in the early 70s on - BSD &UNIX; and was formally described in <ulink url="http://www.rfc.net/rfc1179.html";>RFC 1179</ulink> only as late - as 1990. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + BSD &UNIX; and was formally described in &linkstart;"http://www.rfc.net/rfc1179.html"&linkmid;RFC 1179&linkend; only as late + as 1990.&newpara; At the time when BSD "remote" printing was first designed, printers were serially or otherwise directly connected devices to a host (with the Internet hardly consisting of more than 100 nodes!); printers @@ -114,26 +102,17 @@ the medium, drawn from a cardboard box beneath the table. It came out like a zig-zag folded paper "snake". Remote printing consisted of a neighboring host in the next room sending a file - asking for printout. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + asking for printout.&newpara; How technology has changed! Printers generally use cut-sheet media, they have built-in intelligence to compute the raster images of pages after pages that are sent to them using one of the powerful page description languages (PDL). Many are network nodes in their own right, with CPU, RAM, a hard disk and their own Operation System, and - are hooked to a net with potentially millions of users... -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + are hooked to a net with potentially millions of users...&newpara; It is a vast proof of the flexible &UNIX; concept for doing things, that it made "Line Printing" reliably work even under these modern conditions. But time has finally come now to go for something new -- the IPP. - </para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> @@ -143,30 +122,27 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-cups"> <glossterm>&CUPS;</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>C</emphasis>ommon - <emphasis>U</emphasis>NIX <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting - <emphasis>S</emphasis>ystem; &CUPS; is the most modern &UNIX; and Linux + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;C&emend;ommon + &emstart;U&emend;NIX &emstart;P&emend;rinting + &emstart;S&emend;ystem; &CUPS; is the most modern &UNIX; and Linux printing system, also providing cross-platform print services to &Microsoft; &Windows; and Apple &MacOS; clients. Based on IPP, it does away with all the pitfalls of old-style BSD printing, providing authentication, encryption and ACLs, plus many more features. At the same time it is backward-compatible enough to serve all legacy clients that are not yet up to IPP, via - LPR/LPD (BSD-style). -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + LPR/LPD (BSD-style).&newpara; &CUPS; is able to control any &PostScript; printer by utilizing the vendor-supplied PPD (PostScript Printer Description file), targeted originally for &Microsoft; Windows NT printing only. &kde; Printing is most powerful if based on - &CUPS;.</para> + &CUPS;.&newpara; + More info:&newpara; + &linkstart;"http://www.cups.org"&linkmid;&CUPS; Homepage&linkend;</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-acl">ACLs</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprint">KDEPrint</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPD</glossseealso> </glossdef> @@ -175,75 +151,22 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-cupsfaq"> <glossterm><acronym>&CUPS;-FAQ</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Currently only available in German (translation is on the way), - the <ulink url="http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html";>&CUPS;-FAQ</ulink> + <glossdef><para>&linkstart;"http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L+TFAQ"&linkmid;&CUPS;-FAQ&linkend; is a valuable resource to answer many questions that anyone new to &CUPS; printing might have at first. </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprinthandbook">KDEPrint Handbook</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="gloss-cups-o-matic"> - <glossterm>&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>&CUPS;-O-Matic was the first "Third Party" plugin for - the &CUPS; printing software. It is available on the <ulink - url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html";>Linuxprinting.org - website</ulink> to provide an online PPD-generating service. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - Together with the companion <application>cupsomatic</application> Perl-Script, - that needs to be installed as an additional &CUPS; backend, - it redirects output from the native <application>pstops</application> filter into - a chain of suitable Ghostscript filters. Upon completion, it - passes the resulting data back to a &CUPS; "backend" for sending - to the printer. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - In this way, &CUPS;-O-Matic enables support for any printer known to - have worked previously in a "classical" Ghostscript environment. - If no native &CUPS; support for that printer is in sight... &CUPS;-O-Matic - is now replaced by the more capable PPD-O-Matic.</para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">PPD-O-Matic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="gloss-cupsomatic"> - <glossterm>cupsomatic</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>The Perl script <application>cupsomatic</application> (plus a working Perl installation - on your system) is needed to make any &CUPS;-O-Matic (or PPD-O-Matic) - generated PPD work with &CUPS;. It was written by Grant Taylor, author of - the Linux Printing HOWTO and Maintainer of the <ulink - url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi";>printer - database</ulink> at the Linuxprinting.org website.</para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-daemon"> <glossterm><acronym>Daemon</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>D</emphasis>isk - <emphasis>a</emphasis>nd <emphasis>e</emphasis>xecution - <emphasis>mon</emphasis>itor; <acronym>Daemons</acronym> are present + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;D&emend;isk + &emstart;a&emend;nd &emstart;e&emend;xecution + &emstart;mon&emend;itor; <acronym>Daemons</acronym> are present on all &UNIX; systems to perform tasks independent of user intervention. Readers more familiar with &Microsoft; &Windows; might want to compare daemons and the tasks they are responsible - with "services". -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + with "services".&newpara; One example of a daemon present on most legacy &UNIX; systems is the LPD (Line Printer Daemon); &CUPS; is widely seen as the successor to LPD in the &UNIX; world and @@ -258,11 +181,7 @@ (only command line printing was known to most Linux users, no device specific print options were available for doing the jobs), Grant Taylor, author of the "Linux Printing HOWTO", collected most of the available - information about printers, drivers and filters in his database. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + information about printers, drivers and filters in his database.&newpara; With the emerging &CUPS; concept, extending the use of PPDs even to non-PostScript printers, he realized the potential of this database: if one puts the different @@ -270,11 +189,7 @@ "Which device prints with which Ghostscript or other filter?", "How well?", and "What command line switches are available?") into PPD-compatible files, he could have all the power of &CUPS; on top of - the traditional printer "drivers". -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + the traditional printer "drivers".&newpara; This has now developed into a broader concept, known as "Foomatic". Foomatic extends the capabilities of spoolers other than &CUPS; (LPR/LPD, LPRng, PDQ, PPR) to a certain @@ -323,24 +238,20 @@ <glossterm>Easy Software Products</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial software products towards the Free Software community; amongst - them the initial version of <ulink - url="http://gimp-print.sf.net/";>Gimp-Print,</ulink> the <ulink - url="http://www.easysw.com/epm/";>EPM software packaging</ulink> tool - and <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/";>HTMLDOC</ulink> + them the initial version of &linkstart; + "http://gimp-print.sf.net/"&linkmid;Gimp-Print,&linkend; the &linkstart; + "http://www.easysw.com/epm/"&linkmid;EPM software packaging&linkend; tool + and &linkstart;"http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/"&linkmid;HTMLDOC&linkend; (used by the "Linux Documentation Project" to build the PDF versions - of the HOWTOs) -- but most importantly: <ulink - url="http://www.cups.org/";>&CUPS;</ulink> (the 'Common &UNIX; Printing - System'). -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - ESP finance themselves by selling a commercial version - of &CUPS;, called <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/";>ESP PrintPro,</ulink> + of the HOWTOs) -- but most importantly: &linkstart; + "http://www.cups.org/"&linkmid;&CUPS;&linkend; (the 'Common &UNIX; Printing + System').&newpara; + ESP financed themselves by selling a commercial version + of &CUPS;, called ESP PrintPro, that includes some professional enhancements. + ESP Print Pro was purchased by Apple Inc. in February of 2007. ESP Print Pro software and support are no longer available from Easy Software Products. ESP Print Pro users were given non-expiring, floating licenses which may be accessed from the MyESP pages. </para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-esp">ESP</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso> </glossdef> @@ -349,19 +260,11 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-encryption"> <glossterm>Encryption</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Encryption of confidential data is an all-important issue if - you transfer it over the Internet or even within intranets. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + you transfer it over the Internet or even within intranets.&newpara; Printing via traditional protocols is not encrypted at all -- it is very easy - to tap and eavesdrop ⪚ into &PostScript; or PCL data transfered - over the wire. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + to tap and eavesdrop ⪚ into &PostScript; or PCL data transferred + over the wire.&newpara; Therefore, in the design of IPP, provision was made for the easy plugin of encryption mechanisms (which can be provided by the same means as the encryption standards for HTTP traffic: SSL and TLS).</para> @@ -381,16 +284,7 @@ devices and handed technical specification documents to developers. The excellent print quality achieved by Gimp-Print on the Stylus series of printers can be attributed to this openness. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - They have also - contracted Easy Software Products to maintain an enhanced version - of Ghostscript ("ESP GhostScript") for improved support of their - printer portfolio. </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">ESP Ghostscript</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -411,9 +305,9 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-escp"> <glossterm><acronym>ESC/P</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>E</emphasis>pson - <emphasis>S</emphasis>tandard <emphasis>C</emphasis>odes for - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinters. Besides &PostScript; and PCL, Epson's ESC/P + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;E&emend;pson + &emstart;S&emend;tandard &emstart;C&emend;odes for + &emstart;P&emend;rinters. Besides &PostScript; and PCL, Epson's ESC/P printer language is one of the best known.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso> @@ -423,55 +317,21 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-esp"> <glossterm><acronym>ESP</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>E</emphasis>asy - <emphasis>S</emphasis>oftware <emphasis>P</emphasis>roducts; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;E&emend;asy + &emstart;S&emend;oftware &emstart;P&emend;roducts; the company that developed &CUPS; (the "Common &UNIX; Printing System"). </para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="gloss-espghostscript"> - <glossterm><acronym>ESP</acronym> Ghostscript</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>A Ghostscript version that is maintained by Easy Software - Products. It includes pre-compiled Gimp-Print drivers for - many inkjets (plus some other goodies). ESP Ghostscript - will produce photographic quality prints in many cases, especially - with the Epson Stylus model series. ESP Ghostscript is GPL-software. - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-espprintpro"> - <glossterm><acronym>ESP</acronym> PrintPro</glossterm> - <glossdef><para> This professional enhancement to &CUPS; (the "Common &UNIX; - Printing System") is sold by the developers - of &CUPS; complete with more than 2,300 printer drivers for several commercial - &UNIX; platforms. <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/printpro/";>ESP PrintPro</ulink> - is supposed to work "out of the box" with little or no configuration - for users or admins. ESP also sell support contracts for - &CUPS; and PrintPro. These sales help to feed the programmers who - develop the Free version of &CUPS;. - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-filter"> + <glossentry id="gloss-filter"> <glossterm>Filter</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Filters, in general, are programs that take some input data, work on it and pass it on as their output data. Filters - may or may not change the data. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + may or may not change the data.&newpara; Filters in the context of printing, are programs that convert a given file (destined for printing, but not suitable in the format it is presently) into a printable format. Sometimes @@ -486,51 +346,28 @@ <glossentry id="gloss-foomatic"> <glossterm>Foomatic</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of - different tools available from <ulink - url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/";>Linuxprinting.org</ulink> + different tools available from &linkstart; "http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/foomatic";>Linuxprinting.org&linkend; These tools aimed to make the usage of traditional Ghostscript and other print filters easier for users and extend the filters' capabilities by adding more command line - switches or explain the driver's execution data. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - Foomatic's different incarnations are &CUPS;-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic, - PDQ-O-Matic, LPD-O-Matic, PPR-O-Matic, MF-O-Matic and - Direct-O-Matic. All of these allow the generation - of appropriate printer configuration files online, by simply - selection the suitable model and suggested (or alternate) driver - for that machine. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + switches or explain the driver's execution data.&newpara; More recently, Foomatic gravitated towards becoming a "meta-spooling" system, that allows configuration of the underlying print subsystem through a unified set of commands (however, this is much more - complicated than KDEPrint's &GUI; interface, which performs a similar + complicated than &kde; printing &GUI; interface, which performs a similar task with regards to different print subsystems). </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">PPD-O-Matic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-ghostscript"> <glossterm>Ghostscript</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Ghostscript is a &PostScript; Raster Image Processor (RIP) in software, originally - developed by L. Peter Deutsch. There is always a <acronym>GPL</acronym> version - of Ghostscript available for free usage and distribution - (mostly 1 year old) while - the current version is commercially sold under another license. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + <glossdef><para>Ghostscript is a an interpreter for the &PostScript; language and for PDF or Raster Image Processor (RIP) in software, originally developed by L. Peter Deutsch. There is always a <acronym>GPL</acronym> version + of Ghostscript available for free usage and distribution. Ghostscript is widely used inside the Linux and &UNIX; world for transforming &PostScript; into raster data suitable - for sending to non-&PostScript; devices.</para> + for sending to non-&PostScript; devices. + More info: + &linkstart;"http://www.ghostscript.com/"&linkmid;Ghostscript Homepage&linkend;</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso> </glossdef> @@ -541,49 +378,14 @@ <glossdef><para>Contrary to its name, Gimp-Print is no longer just the plugin to be used for printing from the popular Gimp program -- its codebase can also serve to be compiled - into... - <!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - *...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly + into...&newpara; + ...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly into &CUPS;, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing - photographic output quality in many cases; -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - *...a Ghostscript filter that can be used with any other - program that needs a software-RIP; -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - *...a library that can be used by other software applications - in need of rasterization functions. - - -<!-- -after 4 hours fiddling, I -could not get those s!@*#? -<itemizedlist> to pass -through the meinproc checks. -For the time being I gave up -on it and handle it differently -now. - <itemizedlist> - <listitem>...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly - into &CUPS;, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing - photografic output quality in many cases;</listitem> - <listitem>...a Ghostscript filter that can be used with any other - program that needs a software-RIP;</listitem> - <listitem>...a library that can be used by other software applications - in need of rasterization functions.</listitem> - </itemizedlist> ---> - </para> + photographic output quality in many cases;&newpara; + ...a Ghostscript filter that can be used with any other + program that needs a software-RIP;&newpara; + ...a library that can be used by other software applications + in need of rasterization functions.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lexmark">Lexmark Drivers</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso> @@ -592,7 +394,7 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-hp"> <glossterm><acronym>&HP;</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>H</emphasis>ewlett-<emphasis>Packard</emphasis>; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;H&emend;ewlett-&emstart;Packard&emend;; one of the first companies to distribute their own Linux printer drivers. -- More recently, the Company has released their "HPIJS" package of drivers, including source code and a Free license. @@ -605,8 +407,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-hpgl"> <glossterm><acronym>&HP;/GL</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>&HP;</emphasis> - <emphasis>G</emphasis>raphical <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;&HP;&emend; + &emstart;G&emend;raphical &emstart;L&emend;anguage; a &HP; printer language mainly used for plotters; many CAD (Computer Aided Design) software programs output &HP;/GL files for printing.</para> @@ -628,18 +430,13 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-ietf"> <glossterm><acronym>IETF</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet - <emphasis>E</emphasis>ngineering <emphasis>T</emphasis>ask - <emphasis>F</emphasis>orce; an assembly of Internet, software + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;I&emend;nternet + &emstart;E&emend;ngineering &emstart;T&emend;ask + &emstart;F&emend;orce; an assembly of Internet, software and hardware experts that discuss new networking technologies and very often arrive at conclusions that are regarded by many as standards. "TCP/IP" - is the most famous example. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + is the most famous example.&newpara; IETF standards, as well as drafts, discussions, ideas and useful tutorials, are put in writing in the famous series of "RFCs", which @@ -653,8 +450,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-ipp"> <glossterm><acronym>IPP</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting <emphasis>P</emphasis>rotocol; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;I&emend;nternet + &emstart;P&emend;rinting &emstart;P&emend;rotocol; defined in a series of RFCs accepted by the IETF with status "proposed standard"; was designed by the PWG. -- IPP is a completely new design for network printing, @@ -662,45 +459,14 @@ now. actual data transfer: HTTP 1.1! By not "re-inventing the wheel", and basing itself on an existing and robust Internet standard, IPP is able to relatively easily bolt other HTTP-compatible standard - mechanisms into its framework: -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - * Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication - mechanisms; -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - * SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred - data; -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - * LDAP for directory services (to publish - data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or - also to the network; or to check for passwords while - performing authentication). -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + mechanisms into its framework:&newpara; -<!-- - </para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem>Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication - mechanisms</listitem> - <listitem>SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred - data</listitem> - <listitem>LDAP for directory services (to publish + Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication mechanisms&newpara; + SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred data&newpara; + LDAP for directory services (to publish data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or - elso to the network; or to check for passwords while - conducting authentication)</listitem> - </itemizedlist> ---> + also to the network; or to check for passwords while + conducting authentication) </para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> @@ -711,92 +477,6 @@ now. </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-kdeprint"> - <glossterm><acronym>KDEPrint</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>The new printing functionality of &kde; since version 2.2 - consists of several modules that translate the features and settings - of different available print subsystems (&CUPS;, BSD-style LPR/LPD, RLPR...) - into nice &kde; desktop &GUI; windows and dialogs to ease their - usage. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - Most important for day-to-day usage is "kprinter", the new - &GUI; print command. -- Note: KDEPrint does <emphasis>not</emphasis> implement its own - spooling mechanism or its own &PostScript; processing; for this it - relies on the selected <emphasis>print subsystem</emphasis> - -- however it does add some functionality of its own on top of this - foundation... - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprinthandbook">KDEPrint Handbook</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="gloss-kdeprinthandbook"> - <glossterm><acronym>KDEPrint Handbook...</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>...is the name of the reference document that describes KDEPrint - functions to users and administrators. You can load it into Konqueror by - typing "help:/kdeprint" into the address field. The <ulink - url="http://printing.kde.org/";>KDEPrint website</ulink> - is the resource for updates to this documentation, as well as PDF - versions suitable for printing it. It is authored and maintained by Kurt - Pfeifle. - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsfaq">&CUPS;-FAQ</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="gloss-kprinter"> - <glossterm>kprinter</glossterm> - <glossdef><para><emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is the new powerful - print utility that is natively used by all &kde; applications. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - Contrary to some common misconceptions, - <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is <emphasis>not</emphasis> a &CUPS;-only tool, - but supports different print subsystems. You can even switch - to a different print subsystem "on the fly", in between two jobs, - without re-configuration. Of course, due to the powerful - features of &CUPS;, <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is - best suited for use with a &CUPS; frontend. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> is the successor - to "qtcups", which is no longer being actively maintained. It has - inherited all the best features of qtcups and added several new ones. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - MOST IMPORTANT: you can use <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> - with all its features in all non-&kde; applications that allow - a customized print command, like gv, Acrobat Reader, Netscape, - Mozilla, Galeon, StarOffice, OpenOffice and all GNOME programs. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - <emphasis>kprinter</emphasis> can act as a "standalone" - utility, started from an X-Terminal or a "Mini-CLI" to - print many different files, from different folders, with different - formats, in one job and simultaneously, without the need to first open the - files in the applications! (File formats supported this way are &PostScript;, - PDF, International and ASCII Text, as well as many different popular graphic - formats, such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, Sun RASTER, &etc;) - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qtcups">QtCUPS</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-lexmark"> <glossterm><acronym>Lexmark</acronym></glossterm> @@ -831,24 +511,19 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase"> <glossterm><acronym>Linuxprinting.org Database</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>....Database containing printers and drivers that are suitable - for them... ...a lot of information and documentation to be found... ...it - is now also providing some tools and utilities for easing the integration - of those drivers into a given system... ...the "Foomatic" family - of utilities; being the toolset to make use of the database - for most of the commonly used print subsystems, for generating "on the fly" - working configurations for your printer model. - </para> + <glossdef><para>&linkstart;"http://www.openprinting.org/printers"&linkmid;Database&linkend; containing printers and drivers that are suitable for them. + More info: + &linkstart;"http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/indexfaq"&linkmid;Linuxprinting.org FAQ&linkend;</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-lprlpd"> <glossterm><acronym>LPR/LPD</acronym> printing</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>LPR == some people translate <emphasis>L</emphasis>ine - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting <emphasis>R</emphasis>equest, others: - <emphasis>L</emphasis>ine <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter - <emphasis>R</emphasis>emote.</para> + <glossdef><para>LPR == some people translate &emstart;L&emend;ine + &emstart;P&emend;rinting &emstart;R&emend;equest, others: + &emstart;L&emend;ine &emstart;P&emend;rinter + &emstart;R&emend;emote.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -865,52 +540,38 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-mimetypes"> <glossterm>&MIME;-Types</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>M</emphasis>ultipurpose (or - Multimedia) <emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet <emphasis>M</emphasis>ail - <emphasis>E</emphasis>xtensions; &MIME;-Types were first used to allow + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;M&emend;ultipurpose (or + Multimedia) &emstart;I&emend;nternet &emstart;M&emend;ail + &emstart;E&emend;xtensions; &MIME;-Types were first used to allow the transport of binary data (like mail attachments containing graphics) over mail connections that were normally only transmitting - ASCII characters: the data had to be encoded into an ASCII representation. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + ASCII characters: the data had to be encoded into an ASCII representation.&newpara; Later this concept was extended to describe a data format in a platform independent, but at the same time non-ambiguous, way. From &Windows; everybody knows the .doc extensions for &Microsoft; Word files. This is handled ambiguously on the &Windows; platform: .doc extensions are also used for simple text files or for Adobe Framemaker files. And if a real Word file is renamed with a different extension, it can no longer be - opened by the program. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + opened by the program.&newpara; &MIME; typed files carry a recognition string with them, describing - their file format based on <emphasis>main_category/sub_category</emphasis>. + their file format based on &emstart;main_category/sub_category&emend;. Inside IPP, print files are also described using the &MIME; type scheme. &MIME; types are registered with the IANA (Internet Assigning Numbers - <emphasis>Association</emphasis>) to keep them unambiguous. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + &emstart;Association&emend;) to keep them unambiguous.&newpara; &CUPS; has some &MIME; types of its own registered, like - <emphasis>application/vnd.cups-raster</emphasis> (for the &CUPS;-internal + &emstart;application/vnd.cups-raster&emend; (for the &CUPS;-internal raster image format). - </para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> <glossentry id="gloss-pcl"> <glossterm><acronym>PCL</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter - <emphasis>C</emphasis>ontrol <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;P&emend;rinter + &emstart;C&emend;ontrol &emstart;L&emend;anguage; developed by &HP;. PCL started off in version 1 as a simple command set for ASCII printing; now, in its versions PCL6 and PCL-X, it is capable of printing graphics @@ -925,8 +586,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-pdl"> <glossterm><acronym>PDL</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>age - <emphasis>D</emphasis>escription <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;P&emend;age + &emstart;D&emend;escription &emstart;L&emend;anguage; PDLs describe, in an abstract way, the graphical representation of a page. - Before it is actually transferred into toner or ink laid down on to paper, a PDL needs to be @@ -942,8 +603,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-pixel"> <glossterm>Pixel</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>Pic</emphasis>ture - <emphasis>El</emphasis>ement; this term describes the smallest + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;Pic&emend;ture + &emstart;El&emend;ement; this term describes the smallest part of a raster picture (either as printed on paper or as displayed on a monitor by cathode rays or LCD elements). As any graphical or image representation on those types of output @@ -959,8 +620,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-pjl"> <glossterm><acronym>PJL</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>rint - <emphasis>J</emphasis>ob <emphasis>L</emphasis>anguage; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;P&emend;rint + &emstart;J&emend;ob &emstart;L&emend;anguage; developed by &HP; to control and influence default and per-job settings of a printer. It may not only be used for &HP;'s own (PCL-)printers; also many &PostScript; @@ -975,11 +636,7 @@ now. <glossdef><para>&PostScript; (often shortened to "PS") is the de-facto standard in the &UNIX; world for printing files. It was developed by Adobe and licensed to printer manufacturers - and software companies. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> + and software companies.&newpara; As the &PostScript; specifications were published by Adobe, there are also "Third Party" implementations of &PostScript; generating and &PostScript; interpreting software @@ -995,36 +652,21 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-ppd"> <glossterm><acronym>PPD</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>P</emphasis>ostScript - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter <emphasis>D</emphasis>escription; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;P&emend;ostScript + &emstart;P&emend;rinter &emstart;D&emend;escription; PPDs are ASCII files storing all information about the special capabilities of a printer, plus definitions of the (PostScript- or PJL-) commands to call on a certain capability (like print - duplexing). -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + duplexing).&newpara; As the explanation of the acronym reveals, PPDs were originally only used for &PostScript; printers. &CUPS; has extended the - PPD concept to all types of printers. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + PPD concept to all types of printers.&newpara; PPDs for &PostScript; printers are provided by the printer - vendors. They can be used with &CUPS; and KDEPrint to have access - to the full features of any &PostScript; printer. The KDEPrint Team + vendors. They can be used with &CUPS; and &kde; printing subsystem to have access + to the full features of any &PostScript; printer. The &kde; Team recommends using a PPD originally intended for use with - &Microsoft; Windows NT. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - PPDs for non-PostScript printers <emphasis>need</emphasis> a + &Microsoft; Windows NT.&newpara; + PPDs for non-PostScript printers &emstart;need&emend; a companion "filter" to process the &PostScript; print files into a format digestible for the non-PostScript target device. Those PPD/filter combos are not (yet) available from the vendors. After @@ -1043,41 +685,6 @@ now. </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-PPD-O-Matic"> - <glossterm>PPD-O-Matic</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>PPD-O-Matic is a set of Perl scripts that run on the Linuxprinting.org - web server and can be used online to generate PPDs for any printer that is known - to print with Ghostscript. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - These PPDs can be hooked up to &CUPS;/KDEPrint, as well as - used inside PPD-aware applications like StarOffice to determine all different - parameters of your printjobs. It is now recommended, in most cases, to - use "PPD-O-Matic" instead of the older &CUPS;-O-Matic. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - To generate a PPD, go to the <ulink - url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi";>printer - database</ulink>, select your printer model, follow - the link to show the available Ghostscript filters for that printer, select - one, click "generate" and finally save the file to your local system. - Be sure to read the instructions. Make sure that your local system - does indeed have Ghostscript and the filter, which you chose - before generating the PPD, installed. - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingorg">Linuxprinting.org</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-printcap"> <glossterm>printcap</glossterm> <glossdef><para>In BSD-style print systems, the "printcap" file holds @@ -1095,8 +702,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-printermib"> <glossterm>Printer-<acronym>MIB</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for - <emphasis>Printer</emphasis>-<emphasis>M</emphasis>anagement - <emphasis>I</emphasis>nformation <emphasis>B</emphasis>ase; the + &emstart;Printer&emend;-&emstart;M&emend;anagement + &emstart;I&emend;nformation &emstart;B&emend;ase; the Printer-MIB defines a set of parameters that are to be stored inside the printer for access through the network. This is useful if many (in some cases, literally @@ -1110,8 +717,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-pwg"> <glossterm><acronym>PWG</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinter <emphasis>W</emphasis>orking - <emphasis>G</emphasis>roup; the PWG is a loose grouping of + &emstart;P&emend;rinter &emstart;W&emend;orking + &emstart;G&emend;roup; the PWG is a loose grouping of representatives of the printer industry that has, in the past years, developed different standards in relation to network printing. These were later accepted by the @@ -1123,62 +730,38 @@ now. </glossdef> </glossentry> +<!-- <glossentry id="gloss-printkioslave"> <glossterm>print:/ KIO Slave</glossterm> <glossdef><para>You can use a syntax of "print:/..." to get quick access - to KDEPrint resources. Typing "print:/manager" as a Konqueror URL + to &kde; printing subsystem resources. Typing "print:/manager" as a Konqueror URL address gives administrative access to KDEPrint. Konqueror uses &kde;'s famous "KParts" technology to achieve that. </para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave">IO Slave</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> - +--> <glossentry id="gloss-printerdatabase"> <glossterm>Printer Database</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>.</para> + <glossdef><para>Good database of printer drivers can be found at &linkstart;"http://www.openprinting.org/printers"&linkmid;http://www.openprinting.org/printers&linkend;.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting Database</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-qtcups"> - <glossterm><acronym>Qt&CUPS;</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Qt&CUPS; and KUPS were the predecessors of KDEPrint; they are now - deprecated and no longer maintained. What was good in qtcups is all inherited - by "kprinter", the new KDE print dialog (which is much improved over qtcups); - what you liked about kups is now all in the KDEPrint Manager (accessible - via the KDE Control Center or via the URL "print:/manager" from Konqueror) -- - with more functionality and less bugs... Its former developer, Michael Goffioul, is now - the developer of KDEPrint -- a very nice and productive guy and quick bug fixer... - </para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - <glossentry id="gloss-raster"> <glossterm>Raster Image</glossterm> <glossdef><para>Every picture on a physical medium is composed of a pattern of discrete dots in different colors and (maybe) - sizes. This is called a "raster image". -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + sizes. This is called a "raster image".&newpara; This is as opposed to a "vector image" where the graphic is described in terms of continuous curves, shades, forms and filled areas, represented by mathematical formula. Vector images normally have a smaller file size and may be scaled in size without any loss of information and quality --- but they cannot be output directly, but always have to be "rendered" or "rasterized" - first to the given resolution that the output device is capable of... -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - - + first to the given resolution that the output device is capable of...&newpara; The rasterization is done by a Raster Image Processor (RIP, often the Ghostscript software) or some other filtering instance.</para> @@ -1193,26 +776,16 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-rip"> <glossterm><acronym>RIP</acronym></glossterm> <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for - <emphasis>R</emphasis>aster <emphasis>I</emphasis>mage - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rocess(or); if used in the context of + &emstart;R&emend;aster &emstart;I&emend;mage + &emstart;P&emend;rocess(or); if used in the context of printing, "RIP" means a hardware or software instance that converts &PostScript; (or other print formats that are represented in one of the non-Raster PDLs) into a raster image format in such a way that it is acceptable - for the "marking engine" of the printer. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + for the "marking engine" of the printer.&newpara; &PostScript; printers contain their own PostScript-RIPs. A RIP may or may not be located - inside a printer. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + inside a printer.&newpara; For many &UNIX; systems, Ghostscript is the package that provides a "RIP in software", running on the host computer, and pre-digesting the &PostScript; or other data to become ready to be sent to the @@ -1231,33 +804,18 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-rlpr"> <glossterm><acronym>RLPR</acronym> (Remote LPR)</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>R</emphasis>emote - <emphasis>L</emphasis>ine <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting - <emphasis>R</emphasis>equest; this is a BSD-style printing system, + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;R&emend;emote + &emstart;L&emend;ine &emstart;P&emend;rinting + &emstart;R&emend;equest; this is a BSD-style printing system, that needs no root privileges to be installed, and no "printcap" to work: all parameters may be specified on the command - line. -<!-- - </para> - <para> ---> - + line.&newpara; RLPR comes in handy for many laptop users who are working in frequently changing environments. This is because it may be installed concurrently with every other printing sub system, and allows a very flexible and quick way to install a printer for direct access via LPR/LPD. -<!-- </para> - <para> ---> - - KDEPrint - has an "Add Printer Wizard" to make RLPR usage even easier. - The kprinter command allows switching to RLPR "on - the fly" at any time.</para> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kdeprint">KDEPrint</glossseealso> - <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printcap">printcap</glossseealso> </glossdef> </glossentry> @@ -1265,9 +823,9 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-snmp"> <glossterm><acronym>SNMP</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>S</emphasis>imple - <emphasis>N</emphasis>etwork <emphasis>M</emphasis>anagement - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rotocol; SNMP is widely used to control + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;S&emend;imple + &emstart;N&emend;etwork &emstart;M&emend;anagement + &emstart;P&emend;rotocol; SNMP is widely used to control all types of network node (Hosts, Routers, Switches, Gateways, Printers...) remotely.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso> @@ -1277,8 +835,8 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-ssl"> <glossterm><acronym>SSL(3)</acronym> encryption</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>S</emphasis>ecure - <emphasis>S</emphasis>ocket <emphasis>L</emphasis>ayer; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;S&emend;ecure + &emstart;S&emend;ocket &emstart;L&emend;ayer; <acronym>SSL</acronym> is a proprietary encryption method for data transfer over HTTP that was developed by Netscape. It is now being replaced by an IETF standard named TLS. @@ -1290,9 +848,9 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-spooling"> <glossterm><acronym>SPOOL</acronym>ing</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>S</emphasis>ynchronous - <emphasis>P</emphasis>eripheral <emphasis>O</emphasis>perations - <emphasis>O</emphasis>n<emphasis>L</emphasis>ine; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;S&emend;ynchronous + &emstart;P&emend;eripheral &emstart;O&emend;perations + &emstart;O&emend;n&emstart;L&emend;ine; <acronym>SPOOL</acronym>ing enables printing applications (and users) to continue their work as the job is being taken care of by a system <acronym>daemon</acronym>, @@ -1305,10 +863,10 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-tls"> <glossterm><acronym>TLS</acronym> encryption</glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>T</emphasis>ransport - <emphasis>L</emphasis>ayer <emphasis>S</emphasis>ecurity; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;T&emend;ransport + &emstart;L&emend;ayer &emstart;S&emend;ecurity; <acronym>TLS</acronym> is an encryption standard for - data transfered over HTTP 1.1; it is defined in RFC 2246; + data transferred over HTTP 1.1; it is defined in RFC 2246; although based on the former SSL development (from Netscape) it is not fully compatible with it. </para> @@ -1346,11 +904,11 @@ now. <glossentry id="gloss-xpp"> <glossterm><acronym>XPP</acronym></glossterm> - <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>X</emphasis> - <emphasis>P</emphasis>rinting <emphasis>P</emphasis>anel; + <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for &emstart;X&emend; + &emstart;P&emend;rinting &emstart;P&emend;anel; <acronym>XPP</acronym> was the first Free graphical print command for &CUPS;, written by Till Kamppeter, - and in some ways a model for the "kprinter" utility in &kde;.</para> + and in some ways a model for the "kprinter" utility in &kde; 3.</para> </glossdef> </glossentry> <!--
