[Kde-print-devel] Report of Linux Printing Summit. Part1:observations

[Cristian Tibirna]

On 19 April 2006 10:28, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> > > > - 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?
> >
> > I don't know about the similarity to windows, but yes.
>
> Well, under Windows, the printer-specific properties dialog is usually
> part of
> the driver, 

Yes, I know this. And while accepting it does justice to the printer, I 
believe it doesn't do so to the user. Users are very easily confused by 10 
kinds of printing dialogs in an environment with many printers (education, 
corporate).

What I meant is, I don't know if printer manufacturers would want to bring 
Linux to a situation similar as windows today. Perhaps yes. But I felt they 
were ready to look at other propositions, if good enough (or even hopefully 
better).

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Cristian Tibirna
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