Re: Deprecating (almost) all CurrentXxxx properties in CIM_Printer
Slight revision to the proposal: Deprecate all the CurrentXxxx
properties in favor of the corresponding DefaultXxxx properties, except
CurrentCharSet and CurrentNaturalLanguage.
These last two properties, CharSet and NaturalLanguage, record the
character set and natural language being used for management, not for
printing. They are properties of the printer controller, not properties
of print jobs. Since they are asynchronous with printing functions,
they do not suffer from the ambiguities of the other CurrentXxxx
properties in complex printers. Also, neither of these properties has a
corresponding DefaultXxxx property. Therefore these two properties must
be retained.
Summary:
CurrentPaperType deprecate; use DefaultPaperType instead
CurrentLanguage deprecate; use DefaultLanguage
CurrentMimeType deprecate; use DefaultMimeType
CurrentCapabilities deprecate; use DefaultCapabilities
CurrentCharSet retain
CurrentNaturalLanguage retain
I recall that some exceptions were mentioned, but I think we all
mistakenly referred to CurrentLanguage instead of CurrentCharSet during
the discussion.
Addendum to proposal: we could change the *names* of the two remaining
CurrentXxxx properties to DefaultCharSet and DefaultNaturalLanguage and
then be rid of all the CurrentXxxx properties. (Actual process: add new
properties with identical syntax and semantics but new names, and then
deprecate the old properties.) Only half kidding.
Comments, please.
rick
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