Re: 25 'coolest' softwares not present in default RH install

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:50, John Haxby wrote:
>  
>
> > You really should sort out printing under Linux -- it's come on in
> > leaps and bounds recently.   In fact I tend to get better support for
> > printing under Linux than I do under Windows now.
> >    
>
> I still think that more and more Linux apps should be able to pick WHICH 
> printer configured on the local system to use, instead of just blindly 
> sending to LPR.  Case in point, I have 2 instances of one printer set 
> up.  One is set with duplexing (double sided printing) turned on, and 
> one is turned off.  In _some_ apps, like kmail, I can pick which 
> printer I want to send the postscript to, but many many other apps will 
> just send to whatever is the default.  I find this to be a huge 
> shortcoming wrt Linux printing.
>  
kprinter -- use it where ever you you use lpr.  A picture speaks a 
thousand words: