Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer

[Jason Rumney]

Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote:
> Hi all! Is there anything more I should do to get this patch accepted?
> When it comes to the issue about calling default-printer-name each time
> we print something, I can see several options:
>
> o Leave as is (my favorite).
> o Only call default-printer-name on start-up.
> o Make the use of the above two ways run-time configurable.
> o Add some caching functionality to default-printer-name, and trigger
>   the "cache update" on WM_SETTINGCHANGE.

I favour the first option too. Worrying about a few milliseconds 
overhead for a system call on an operation like printing, that takes 
orders of magnitude longer, is not worth it IMHO. Caching would make the 
code overly complicated and difficult to maintain.