[ale] Mozilla + CUPS (multiple printers)

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:26 am, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > This works for a few printers, but it doesn't scale well.  I would
> > > prefer being given a list of available printers to select from (like
> > > Windows does).
> >
> > I don't know of a solution such as that for mozilla.  I'm not sure what
> > you mean by scale well.  Is it an issue regarding the number of
> > printers?  That is, it's not easy to remember which of the 37 CUPS
> > defined printers you want to use?
>
> On the contrary; you understand exactly what he means.  In even a modest
> shop, you can expect to have people printing to printers that aren't
> within eyeshot.  To expect users to remember their names or look up
> their names external to the print dialog is unreasonable.  Yes, this is
> one place where Windows does it better.

And what you're describing is also the way KDE does it. The ease of printer 
setup was one of the first things that drew me to KDE.