Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:24:24AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > > This is a good idea. The stuff in the Preferences popup is incomprehensible
> > > rubbish. Much better off in a stand alone file IMO
> >
> > I'm inclinded to think that we should modify the Preferences dialog to
> > provide a choice of dvi2?? driver (made from the list of entries in
> > Dekel's file) but have an "Other..." or "Custom..." choice so people can
> > still have something to edit if they need it. Sure they could edit the
> > printer driver file but first they have to find it and then they have to
> > find out how to program it. At least Preferences has help text and it is
> > easy to find. Although I'm thinking we need to redesign the Printer
> > subpanel a bit better (a different arrangement rather than showing all
> > fields at once -- maybe more tabs?)
>
> I don't think that the ability to edit the print command flags in preferences
> is needed. Maybe 0.01% of the users will need it, so it is better spend time
> on more useful code.
Like maybe providing the facility of psutils in a GUI? Aren't print
commands the things that get _documents_ to _paper_? It seems to me like
the Layout->Document->Paper and the printer preferences might be
combined.
Garst
