OpenPrinting Summit - Print Dialog and Colour Management

todd rme toddrme2178 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 20:08:04 GMT 2011


On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:02 PM, John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 Mar 2011 17:48:09 Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> do you refer to the dialog I see for one of our printers?  Which options do
>> you want to see?  The "General" tab?
>>
>> By the way, is there any reason to prevent resizing of the dialog?
>>
>> I've disabled this and made 3 screenshots showing the general dialog.
>>
>> http://www.pontohonk.de/screenshots/cpd-1.png
>> http://www.pontohonk.de/screenshots/cpd-2.png
>> http://www.pontohonk.de/screenshots/cpd-3.png
>>
>> Christoph
>
> Wow, thats some set of printer options :-)  Definately too long.
>
> As I've said earlier, the dialog still needs polishing, and the options
> filtering looks to be one of those things needing work.  Cases like this will
> be a good test of the usability design.  I think the big problem is people
> will need to unlearn that those are tabs with fixed groups of settings, but
> rather filters that can be mixed and matched to produce dynamic results.
>
> John.

Just out of curiosity, what widget style is being used for the screenshots?

-Todd




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