[Kde-print-devel] Report of Linux Printing Summit. Part 1:observations

Goffioul Michael goffioul at imec.be
Wed Apr 19 09:41:42 CEST 2006


> * things in which KDEPrint development is concerned start 
> moving faster after the Summit. There is discussion about:
> - a common standard for printing dialogs, so that these 
> become uniformized all over Linux applications (KDE, GTK, 
> mozilla, OOo etc.)
> - a technology for framework agnostic printer driver 
> plugins/extensions for the printing dialog

Is this about the possibility for the driver to customize the UI
of the printing/driver dialog, in the way it is done under Windows?
If yes, then it's a big change. Last time (3 years ago) I proposed
something similar, I just got a big "No" from the whole community.
I'm glad to see things changing...

Michael.


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