[Kde-print-devel] Open Printing Common Print Dialog

[Till Kamppeter]

On 06/08/2010 04:38 PM, hvengel at astound.net wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:15:51 +0100
> John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 07 Jun 2010 21:03:37 Till Kamppeter wrote:
>>> On 06/07/2010 08:00 PM, Hal V. Engel wrote:
>>> >> We have our annual conference (http://akademy.kde.org/) coming up
>>> in a
>>> >> >> months time, which would be a great chance to grab all the
>>> necessary
>>> >> people to discuss things, so it would be good to have some kind of
>>> >> idea of what is needed before then. Would someone from OpenPrinting
>>> >> be able to attend during the hack week to discuss the plans from a
>>> >> technical view?
>>> > > This will not work for me but someone else from Open Printing may
>>> be able
>>> > to attend. I have CC'ed Till Kamppeter who is the main person at Open
>>> > Printing and it may be possible for him or someone else closer to
>>> > Finland to attend. I think it would be a very good idea to have
>>> someone
>>> > demo the CPD and also work out any issues. Also as this moves
>>> forward I
>>> > would be more than happy to have you and others working on KDE and Qt
>>> > review the work so that we know we are headed in the right direction.
>>>
>>> I did not plan to participate in the aKademy this year, but Peter was
>>> already earlier on an aKademy and has presented the project.
>>>
>>> Should Peter or me participate this year? Problem is also that their
>>> Call for Papers is already closed.
>>>
>>> Till
>>
>> I don't think we would need a presentation on the high-level concept
>> at the conference proper, I think Peter covered that well at Mechalen
>> (video at
>> http://home.kde.org/~akademy08/videos/Akademy2008_2_02_ComingToEveryLinuxDesktopNextGenerationPrintingDialogs_PeterSikking.ogg
>>
>> for anyone interested).
>>
>> I was thinking more of a technical BoF during the hack week where we
>> could hash out the technical details of how the implementation is
>> actually going to work, do walk-throughs of the workflow and each
>> app/dialog interaction scenario, sort out where it will live, define
>> what our requirements are for it to be accepted into KDE, and work out
>> the community co-ordination issues.
>
> I agree that these are all very important things that need to be worked
> out in the near future. Preferably in the next few weeks.
>
>>
>> Getting some of our key hackers who know stuff I don't in a room with
>> you and any Qt guys available could solve a lot of issues very quickly
>> and give a clear path forward. I'd hate for you guys to complete a
>> solution and only then find it was something we couldn't use.
>>
>> I guess it depends on whether such a session would have enough value
>> without Hal, or if we resolve enough issues before Akademy to make it
>> a waste of your time. I'd also need to see if I can raise enough
>> interest amongst the core hackers to get them to attend.
>
> My feeling is that we can resolve the vast majority of this in the next
> few weeks if the right players are involved.

I am already trying to get funds for going to the aKademy. If I do not 
succeed, could perhaps the KDE e. V. or someone you know (Nokia or so) 
help me?

    Till