Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Recents commits

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 17:28:40 +0100
   From: Andy Thaller <th...@ph...>

   the BJC6000 much more sanely. Except for the still missing left
   image offset the driver should work - as soon as the latter is done
   we can put up a notice about canon-support in the webpages. BTW:
   the new dithering stuff works fine with the canon driver :-)

Good work!

   Another change fixes the lpc-related bug haunting my box ever since
   I'm using the print-plugin: The plp-lpc tool has some paging
   functionality which prints the message "Press RETURN to continue or
   'b' for back one page or 'q' to quit:" after each page leading to
   some quite funny printer entries and extraordinarily wide dropdown
   boxes ;-)

This sort of nonsense is confusing everyone.  Someone tried to give me
a patch to use "lpc status all" rather than "lpc status" because
that's what his lpc needs.  This needs to be part of the configuration
process.

   I'm coming to a point where I'd need the possibility to choose the
   installed ink cartridges in the GUI: my BJC can be equipped either
   with a K/CMY combination or Kcm/CMY heads. Other printers allow
   choosing between K and CMY, etc, so generalizing this would make
   sense for me. I'm not too familiar with GTK so if someone offers to
   change the dialog appropriately I'd concentrate on further
   bjc-support.

It wouldn't be too hard, but it would break compatibility with the
current printrc format (well, I guess we could simply append it to the
end of the current format, but that would be ugly...).  We really need
to think about this, because it's going to come up with other
printers, too...

   The new parameter could be PrintHead and if '*_parameters()'
   returns a NULL pointer the dropdown box could be omitted. Any
   objections, comments or volunteers?

I'm not opposed, just pointing out an ugliness.