xfprint conflict

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Thu, 27, Mar 2003, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

> > But since I still use lpr (and besides that I like lpr more than CUPS in
> > some ways), I see no good solution for the joblisting/killing feature.
> > We could call lpq frequently, but thats a bad solution.
> 
> Not necessarly *that* bad, looks quite reasonable.
> 
> Much check that lpq doesn't hang though (I've seen lpq hanging when the
> printer queue is not good)

Hm, might be an option. I'll check that next week.

> > BTW: A different issue: I'd really like to see xfce using catgets instead of
> > gettext for two reasons: a) catgets is POSIX standard (gettext is simply a
> > SunOS/Solaris thang) and b) the gettext backend is slow and ugly (and you
> > can easily run into problems with that) whereas catgets has a simply and fast
> > backend. Just to mention: catgets is still not an optimal solution, but its
> > a better solution than gettext (especially GNU gettext) from my point of view.
> 
> gtk+ uses gettext anyway, so you'll have to deal with it.

(Not to mention, that I'd like to see XFce switching to Motif :-)

regards,
Benedikt

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