Bug#376015: Can't print with latest release

Riccardo Magliocchetti riccardo at datahost.it
Fri Jun 30 08:50:21 UTC 2006


On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:29:31 +1200 "Carlos Z.F. Liu"
<carlosliu at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:13:56PM +0200, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> > I can't print because there is no print icon in the menu. 0.8.7 was fine.
> > [snip]

> Yes, I'm aware of that and it's intentional, because leafpad 0.8.9 use
> gnomeprint library to do printing work. If I open it, it will involve a
> huge mount of gnome dependency which isn't most leafpad users wanted.

My fault, i should have read the changelog :)
In my case i've already the libgnomeprint* stuff installed for
abiword and gnumeric so it will not be a problem.

> I haven't investigated how to revert back to old "lp" print method.
> Another possible solution is generating two binary packages, one with
> gnome dependencies and printing function and another one without.
> 
> Any suggestion? Thanks!

If you are fine with two packages it will be great.

BTW I've taken a look at mousepad (xfce leafpad fork) but with all the
dependencies needed for printing it takes quite a lot of space.

cheers,
rm





More information about the Pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list