From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdC00YDQtdC5INCf0LDRgNCw0LzQvtC90L7Qsg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Printing Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:03:07 +0400 Message-ID: <5f0660120903301103r14c031efke97d99560702accc@mail.gmail.com> References: <5f0660120903280331y780c80b7i57a8115dc4b029eb@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238438104 30254 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2009 18:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 20:36:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LoMLC-0007LW-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:36:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoMJm-0000aN-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoLpM-0004g6-R1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoLpI-0004WV-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52018 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoLpI-0004WH-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f160.google.com ([209.85.219.160]:37929) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoLpE-0005IF-NT; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so2297847ewy.42 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:03:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RCR0P4Wo+tDHRG6X2/0aOtk50Cdsuot3WGvFVKvF84E=; b=n137r3ifcMRlF7CbzU2HPmIMyV0s3zf5ITRzfsOW/UxU1s8bjM3QjXrKVzAwhrra+K 5gxLN5YbWu/m05+FZb7dtzTafah07it71541skdYX26HdzqZwibXurpvuKGoq1em5G0G zsv9NwgxEa54+OuQeoL3HUKxrwA24/8JzoVng= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ssgd4Fw7e0f64Qzzf+kbfhtS89pJfjQ3VGl2UXvPZt+F8PVgu2Hy9ZlFuHO7z18Dqh dCvWAstqTq9Ts7AQ0sMH3pFHopWYfxkeclY4fyqPRutAC92FH9KSPKvySq/+C/CEe73N beLmtpD/jB20zIVD9IvmCXvNb2YBxiTO2GtWE= Original-Received: by 10.210.144.8 with SMTP id r8mr2036660ebd.42.1238436187147; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:03:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:23:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109921 Archived-At: 2009/3/29 Richard M Stallman : > =C2=A0 =C2=A0b) Use standard GTK+ printing facilities as GEdit and many o= ther > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 applications do. Emacs is built with GTK+ interface = for quite some > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 time now, so I suppose there should be no architectu= ral problem in > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 using GTK+ for printing as well. Please correct me i= f I'm wrong. > > Sorry, that won't work. =C2=A0Emacs can be built with several display > platforms, GTK being just one. =C2=A0Sometimes none is used. =C2=A0I norm= ally > use Emacs on a tty and I want printing to work there too. > Yes, this is indeed an important requirement. I think that neither GTK nor GhostScript depend on X per se. For example, Debian installer uses GTK to provide multilingual user interface from the very early stages of installation. I don't know if the printing functionality of GTK actually requires X. Thanks for your effort, Andrey Paramonov