OpenPrinting Summit - Print Dialog and Colour Management

[todd rme]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll be attending the OpenPrinting Summit [1] to discuss how to complete the
> Common Printing Dialog [2] and integrate it into KDE and Qt.  I'm looking for
> any feedback people may have about the CPD, and any questions you want me to
> ask while I'm there.
>
> The CPD is a common print dialog implementation in Qt and Gtk that gets called
> via DBus.  The dialog includes a preview image, more user-friendly options,
> better driver integration, and settings management.  Most programs will simply
> print their entire document to PDF and pass the file to the CPD and not have
> any more involvement, but there is a callback mode for longer multi-page
> documents to use.
>
> We will obviously need new API to wrap the new workflow and functionality,
> which I think should be a stand-alone Qt-based library until such time as Qt
> can be convinced to integrate it natively.  This library will also need to
> provide fallback functionality to use the native Qt print dialog for when the
> CPD is not present, such as on Windows and OSX.  Otherwise apps will need to
> code for two different print paths depending on the platform which is not
> desirable.
>
> You can have a play with the dialog in its current rough and ugly state at
> [3].  OpenPrinting have a GSoC project to finish the dialog this year which
> I've promised to help advertise.  It would be great if we could find a good Qt
> gui hacker to make it really shine.
>
> Also on the agenda is integrated end-to-end Colour Management possibly using
> colord [4], something I know absolutly nothing about, so any feedback or
> suggestions people have on that will be very welcome.  For starters the
> dependencies for colord are glib and policykit.
>
> The OpenPrinting Summit is part of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
> immediately following Camp KDE, so if you're attending and want to be involved
> in either of these areas please let me know, backup on the more technical
> aspects would be welcome.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John.

Are there screenshots of the most recent version available?

-Todd