Re: Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 19/09/2023 18:48, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Till Debian GNU/Linux has become so very popular now, only for its network-enabled access tools and for its freedom loving community of developers, maybe mainly for #debian for helping out the user community still.  Most of the debs are still sma

Re: Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Great, may I ask you when you were born and when you started to work with/deploy Linux? Till On 19/09/2023 18:35, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Yes, Till Kampeter, you really are ancient, more still so serving a real good job with the XPP printer panel.  I had deployed this with Slackware in an o

Re: Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Till Debian GNU/Linux has become so very popular now, only for its network-enabled access tools and for its freedom loving community of developers, maybe mainly for #debian for helping out the user community still. Most of the debs are still small, packing a power-punch!! The XPP tool got to be

Re: Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Yes, Till Kampeter, you really are ancient, more still so serving a real good job with the XPP printer panel. I had deployed this with Slackware in an oceanography lab here in Kochi, maybe was it Bo Peep or was it Hamm or it could have still have been Slackware GNU. Debian GNU was not known, even

Re: Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, there were so many people, and especially also many Germans, so I was confusing them. Thanks. So you have deployed XPP as print dialog in your network? Could you give me a short write-up about what you exactly did with XPP, what was that environment, and why you exactly used XPP and not s

Re: Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
During lunch one day at Debconf, I queried as to the status of XPP. I am no German language speaker!! de Ragu VU2RGU On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 4:20 PM Till Kamppeter wrote: > Hi, > > I had some chat with some German-speaking person at lunch or dinner in > the hotel, he is deploying printing somew

Searching for the XPP (X Printing Panel) user ...

2023-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I had some chat with some German-speaking person at lunch or dinner in the hotel, he is deploying printing somewhere, using XPP (https://cups.sourceforge.net/xpp/) as GUI. This was the very first CUPS-supporting free-software print dialog, made by me, and having kicked off my career. Un