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On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:32:10 Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:07:17PM -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: |
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> > > On 03/04/10 12:53, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> > >> Exactly. The last time I owned a printer is over 5 years ago. So I |
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> > >> don't think cups warrants to be in the standard desktop profile. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Cheers, |
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> > > |
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> > > I print almost daily, but I'm not sure if printers are commonplace |
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> > > enough for cups to be a default. Some users may expect it though. |
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> > > |
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> > > As for the circular deps, it would seem more logical to fix the |
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> > > problem at the source, rather than to cover it up for one subset of |
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> > > users. |
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> > |
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> > I can't think of anyone that doesn't have a printer. All my friends and |
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> > family that has a computer has a printer. Heck, I had a printer hooked |
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> > up to my old Vic-20 for goodness sake. That was over 20 years ago. |
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> A sampling size of one is of course representive of the whole. The |
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> vast majority of gentoo deployments I deal in, cups is bloat- my |
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> personal laptop, sure, that's a different story. That's well under a |
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> tenth of my installs however. |
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> The point there is that one size doesn't fit all- we have inheritance |
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> in the profiles for a reason. Shift cups out of the base and into |
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> desktop specific profiles. |
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> That one shouldn't be a point of debate. |
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indeed. printing support should absolutely be enabled by default in desktop |
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profiles. i'm not sure it makes sense in other profiles. |
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-mike |
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