Sorry, I accidentally pressed "send" before I had finished! :)<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vamsi.davuluri@gmail.com" target="_blank">vamsi.davuluri@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><br>Thank you!<br><br>I think I'll do what you said, I'll just let every activity send the print request(the file,metadata involved etc) to journal, and use it as a global dock to print the file.<br> So a button in every activity does just that with minimal tweaking around.<br> <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Makes sense. One should be careful to not expose the CUPS service to activities directly, as one of the threats we have to worry about is resource abuse. Ideally (IMHO), pressing "print" should have the object sent via the dbus to the journal and a preview dialog with a "to" menu and a "options" dialog (which brings up the properties configurable by the driver).<br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>[...] <br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Perhaps in the drop-down menu for each item in<br> the Journal, there could be a "Print this item" option if the item has a<br> MIME type of (pdf, odt, png, jpg...). </blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, it would be a good idea to have a "list of supported print formats" for simplicity. PostScript, of course, should be supported as a fallback. <br> <br></div></div></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc/" target="_blank">http://luke.faraone.cc</a></font>