25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
6:41 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
actually, no. i am not talking about a "Run command" style interface. i
am simply amazed that whenever i go to show my wife or kids a document
that they should print but that needs no editing (e.g. my wife's resume,
a picture one of them took, etc etc), neither i nor they can find anyway
to do so without going into a heavyweight app and then doing the usual
File->Print method.
coming from a command line background, it seems ridiculous that the file
managers/browsers have all omitted to leverage the power of lpr and its
filter system.
no, no. i am
talking about being in a file browser, not in a document
editor. lets say i find foo.txt or bar.png or baz.pdf and i want to
print it. what do i do?
because in a command line environment i don't have to start up an
editor, i just type "lpr foo.txt". it seems to me that this *must* be
possible from the GUI equivalent, but in GNOME at least i cannot find
it.
Do you mean something like the Windows 'Run' command? I don't think
Gnome has that, or I've never seen it. Of course Gnome does have a
terminal to instead of running the command it's open the terminal and
run the command. Not a big deal really.
I'm sure there is a finer point here?