OpenPrinting Summit - Print Dialog and Colour Management

[todd rme]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Hugo Pereira Da Costa
<pereira at hep.saclay.cea.fr> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2011 19:55:48 todd rme wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Just made these:
> http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-cpd
>
> Left: Qt
> Right: gtk
>
> Hugo


Thanks!

-Todd