Printer driver UI [proposal]
Robert L Krawitz
kde-print@mail.kde.org
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:28:01 -0500
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:27:17 +0100
From: Michael Goffioul <goffioul@imec.be>
> DO NOT use host-specific object files! The whole purpose of PPD
> files (and the XML-based UPDF format, should that ever become a
> reality) is to avoid platform dependencies and allow for sharing
> of printer description data.
Here, I'm thinking for example about the development branch of gimp-print
which introduces very complex options and its own GUI. But this is
something else as those options are not described in any PDL (PPD or
UPDF) anyway, so an additional UI description could not refer to
those options.
The Gimp-print GUI is best thought of as a prototype to demonstrate
the capabilities of Gimp-print than a fully engineered solution.
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