Bug#373911: evince: Cannot give print options (with Custom)

[Paul Szabo]

Lo=EFc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:

> The default print backends are either file + lpr when gtk is built
> without cups support or file + cups when gtk is built with cups
> support.  This makes sense to me as lpr is supposedly provided by cups
> when cups is installed anyway.

Some people may not install CUPS if they do not intend to use it.
Some people may install (their own) LPRng, not Debian lpr.

So I would prefer the default to include lpr explicitly: GTK seems smart
enough to "hide" the print options that are not installed or working.

> You can get the "lpr" option as well if you set:
>    gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups"
> in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

Yes, printing from evince works fine with that setting.

Is there a global (not per-user) setting for that; and could the evince
package set that, or the evince binary to set the user's ~/.gtkrc-2.0?

Thanks,

Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia