GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 327605
printing support
Last modified: 2006-04-22 01:11:57 UTC
Dear gtk-devs! It would be useful for people outside the project to be able to monitor the progress regarding printing support. It is the only plan item without a reference, that's why I open this bug. I hope that's ok. Example: Eclipse/SWT on gtk is currently stuck without proper printing support and basically waiting for this feature to show up in gtk-2.10. This has been so for quite some time, and possible alternatives were not pursued mainly in anticipation of printing becoming available in 2.8 already (and because that would be the most clean solution, of course). There is a long and old thread at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24796 In order to minimize FUD it would be a very much appreciated if progress could be documented here every now and then for reference. You would probably benefit from more interest, testing, ideas, criticism, maybe even kudos ... ;) Some references that I found so far, in chronological order: [cairo/gtk "future of rendering" paper June2004] http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/guadec5/ [irc plan meeting, roadmap discussions for 2.10] http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/20050816.txt ["10 Questions" - some implementation considerations] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-October/msg00024.html [irc plan meeting, "printing should be in, but still needs a lot of work"] http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/20060110.txt Cheers, Mathis
As nobody responded directly, but some people *do* seem to be interested, I will just keep this one up to date myself for now. Here we go - first update: FYI, Alexander Larsson started a thread "Gtk+ printing dialog highlevel thoughts" on gtk-devel: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-January/msg00168.html
+++ Newsflash +++ ;) There is some discussion on a functional prototype going on: [Gtk+ print support - request for feedback] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-March/msg00019.html
Ok, I am late with this, but anyway: [Printing support has been merged] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-March/msg00160.html [non-blocking API plans] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-April/msg00149.html Users now know it will definitely be included in 2.10, which is scheduled for May, and can already experiment with CVS. I feel this is everything this tracking bug was aiming at - closing now. Big thanks to Alex, John and everybody else who was involved for making this happen!