On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > no, no. i am talking about being in a file browser, not in a document > > editor. lets say i find foo.txt or bar.png or baz.pdf and i want to > > print it. what do i do? > > > > because in a command line environment i don't have to start up an > > editor, i just type "lpr foo.txt". it seems to me that this *must* be > > possible from the GUI equivalent, but in GNOME at least i cannot find > > it. > > > > Do you mean something like the Windows 'Run' command? I don't think > Gnome has that, or I've never seen it. Of course Gnome does have a > terminal to instead of running the command it's open the terminal and > run the command. Not a big deal really. > > I'm sure there is a finer point here? actually, no. i am not talking about a "Run command" style interface. i am simply amazed that whenever i go to show my wife or kids a document that they should print but that needs no editing (e.g. my wife's resume, a picture one of them took, etc etc), neither i nor they can find anyway to do so without going into a heavyweight app and then doing the usual File->Print method. coming from a command line background, it seems ridiculous that the file managers/browsers have all omitted to leverage the power of lpr and its filter system.
