08-21-2008, 03:29 PM
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 Re: Obsoleteness of X concept
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>The thing is, X wants to move stuff to your workstation, not nearby
>workstations.
Well, often your workstation knows how to print on the printer you
want to print on, even if that printer is connected to a different
machine.
Ok, that's not true of my X-terminal at the office, but if there was
printing through X, it would know how to print.
>Your example of being able to print at home is one that resonates with
>me -- except that I've got two desktops and two laptops at home, and
>only one of the four has a printer.
But I guess all four can use that printer, right?
>> AFAIK there was some work on printing in some X Consortion version of
>> X; googling for it, I find mentions of:
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>> |X Print Extension Protocol
>> |X Version 11, Release 6.4
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>> |X Print Extension Library
>> |X Version 11, Release 6.4
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>> However, according to this
>> extension is deprecated.
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>Wasn't aware it was now deprecated, but I sure never had any luck with
>it...
From what I read, it seems to have somewhat different (and more
ambitious) goals than what I outlined.
- anton
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