Alan McKinnon wrote: > 1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing that > when DOS fell out of fashion. > 2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone? > 3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with it.
What's wrong with lpr? > Multimedia buttons. One of the most confounding things on modern hardware are > multimedia buttons. Volume is easy - make it adjust the sound server. Or you > could use keybindings and have the wm do it, or you could send the keypresses > to the configured audio app. And which one is that? Many apps do sound, which > one will get the buttom focus? Don't have them, don't use them. I don't use wireless on trains either... and never will (unless someone puts a gun to my head). > Even minimal WMs have many more such examples. Removing a sane IPC method > that > can be used everywhere instead of multiple implementations of similar > functionality makes about as much engineering sense as claiming you don't > need > pipes in a shell. But D-Bus is much more than (simple) IPC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication Oh well... Best regards Peter K
