On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Layt <johnl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'll be attending the OpenPrinting Summit [1] to discuss how to complete the > Common Printing Dialog [2] and integrate it into KDE and Qt. I'm looking for > any feedback people may have about the CPD, and any questions you want me to > ask while I'm there. > > The CPD is a common print dialog implementation in Qt and Gtk that gets called > via DBus. The dialog includes a preview image, more user-friendly options, > better driver integration, and settings management. Most programs will simply > print their entire document to PDF and pass the file to the CPD and not have > any more involvement, but there is a callback mode for longer multi-page > documents to use. > > We will obviously need new API to wrap the new workflow and functionality, > which I think should be a stand-alone Qt-based library until such time as Qt > can be convinced to integrate it natively. This library will also need to > provide fallback functionality to use the native Qt print dialog for when the > CPD is not present, such as on Windows and OSX. Otherwise apps will need to > code for two different print paths depending on the platform which is not > desirable. > > You can have a play with the dialog in its current rough and ugly state at > [3]. OpenPrinting have a GSoC project to finish the dialog this year which > I've promised to help advertise. It would be great if we could find a good Qt > gui hacker to make it really shine. > > Also on the agenda is integrated end-to-end Colour Management possibly using > colord [4], something I know absolutly nothing about, so any feedback or > suggestions people have on that will be very welcome. For starters the > dependencies for colord are glib and policykit. > > The OpenPrinting Summit is part of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit > immediately following Camp KDE, so if you're attending and want to be involved > in either of these areas please let me know, backup on the more technical > aspects would be welcome. > > Cheers! > > John.
Are there screenshots of the most recent version available? -Todd
