[Kde-print-devel] Report of Linux Printing Summit. Part 2: conclusions

[Cristian Tibirna]

Hello

This is a followup and conclusion of the previous message. Please read that 
one too in order to understand what I babble about below

Most important conclusion is that I greatly failed at my task of maintaining 
KDEPrint in the last 9 months since I took it over.

There are three very large tasks to be tackled immediately in KDEPrint 
development, as observed in the activities of the Linux Printing Summit:

- upgrade KDEPrint of KDE >= 3.5 to CUPS-1.2 (already started, much still to 
be done)
- upgrade KDEPrint of KDE >= 4 to Qt4 and kdelibs-4
- redesign user-facing parts of KDEPrint in order to account for usability 
reports and build on things learned from the first, very successful, 
iteration of the code

There are then the issues that will slap us soon:
- act on the discoveries/discussions around standardizing the printing dialogs 
accross Linux
- provide for printer driver extensions and application extensions. Research a 
good method and heavily advertize it, get driver and application developers 
interested.


These are, I stress, very big tasks and I would really need help with.

My plans of attacking those are:
- put up a development roadmap page at printing.kde.org
- ask for help in my web log and on the dot
- continue ASAP and as fast/much as possible with CUPS-1.2 synchronization
- if possible, fix Qt-4 synching ASAP
- submit for a Google SOC item: get a SOC student tackle the standardized 
dialog issues

If you have comments, suggestions or corrections for all the above, I'm all 
ears.

Thanks a lot for your attention.

-- 
Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna at kde.org .. http://www.kde.org