08-21-2008, 07:04 AM
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 Re: Obsoleteness of X concept
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>Printing is very different, and it's perfectly reasonable in a
>networked enviroment that the printers be on different machines from
>either my compute server or my workstation.
Yes. But the printer I want to use at the moment is usually
relatively close to my workstation/X-terminal, whereas the compute
server might be very far away, and may not even know about the printer
I want to use. E.g., if I'm at home, and I use a client running on
one of the machines in the office, the printer I typically want to use
is my home printer, but the machine at the office does not know about
it.
It's even more extreme if I run programs on servers of other
organizations, which may be physically very far away, and where we
don't want everyone on that server to be able to print on our local
printers, nor do I want to bother the server's admin with configuring
our local printer on that server.
So it would be a good idea to piggyback printing onto one of the
typical connections between the user and the compute server, i.e.,
either X or ssh.
AFAIK there was some work on printing in some X Consortion version of
X; googling for it, I find mentions of:
|X Print Extension Protocol
|X Version 11, Release 6.4
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|X Print Extension Library
|X Version 11, Release 6.4
However, according to this
extension is deprecated.
- anton
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