[svlug] City of Largo requests features of Dia ... :-)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:55:06PM -0700, Richard Sharpe (rsharpe at richardsharpe.com) wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:13:51 -0400
> From: David Richards <drichard at largo.com>
> Reply-To: dia-list at gnome.org
> To: dia-list at gnome.org
> Subject: Off List Posting
> 
> Gentlemen-
>      We are rolling out OpenOffice for our whole City in about 7 weeks,
> and part of that will be that I will be installing Dia as well to offer
> additional functionality.
> 
> There are two thing that would aid in the deployment, support and polish
> of Dia.
> 
> 1) The dialog box that comes up when you print is tough for our users. 
> They are aren't good at putting in Linux commands, and just a basic
> "lpr" command will send it to the system default printer which is here
> in IT and not at their desk.  Integration with CUPS would be great, or a
> graphical interface for printer selection (such as in Gedit).

Possibly:

Replace the system 'lpr' command with a script that Does The Right
Thing.  Appropriate case/esac logic or a lookup table should turn the
trick.

Peace.

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