OpenPrinting Summit - Print Dialog and Colour Management

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

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

> -Todd