On Wednesday 16 March 2011 19:55:48 todd rme wrote: > 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? >
Just made these: http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-cpd Left: Qt Right: gtk Hugo > -Todd
