Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-04 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:44:33AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> Sending the docs to cups-pdf for conversion and then talking to Moodle >> for teacher review can be done via /usr/bin/lpr, > > But that would sidestep the Journal and prevent

Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:44:33AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Sending the docs to cups-pdf for conversion and then talking to Moodle for teacher review can be done via /usr/bin/lpr, But that would sidestep the Journal and prevent review of the actual output (i.e. what it looks like on paper,

Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-04 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Andrés Ambrois wrote: > On Sunday 03 May 2009 06:29:26 pm Albert Cahalan wrote: >> Vamsi Krishna Davuluri writes: > The priority is on sending the docs to cups-pdf for conversion and then > talking to Moodle for teacher review. It is a good idea to have the code >

Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-03 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Sunday 03 May 2009 06:29:26 pm Albert Cahalan wrote: > Vamsi Krishna Davuluri writes: > > So, talking to Tomeu, we agreed that for Write and Read using > > the gtkprint would be best as both support it as a printing API. > > The focus on "Write and Read" is short sighted and may lead > to inflex

Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-03 Thread Albert Cahalan
Vamsi Krishna Davuluri writes: > So, talking to Tomeu, we agreed that for Write and Read using > the gtkprint would be best as both support it as a printing API. The focus on "Write and Read" is short sighted and may lead to inflexible solutions. > Now, the current plan is: > 1) We do journal pr

Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-03 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
== Use cases == 1.- John has written an essay in Write about sharks and would like to print it right now on a printer plugged via USB to his computer. John does this by hitting the print button in write, and selecting 'usb printing' as destination in the dialog which pops up. He then selects print

Re: [IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-03 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
The usecases would be as following: The user, John, creates a document and saves it to his journal one fine day. The next day john transfers that journal item to his friend's XO the next day. His friend, Kennedy, has his XO set up in a moodle environment. Kennedy when in school decides to send th

[IAEP] The User experience/interface for Printing

2009-05-03 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
hello, So, talking to Tomeu, we agreed that for Write and Read using the gtkprint would be best as both support it as a printing API. Now, the current plan is: 1) We do journal printing only, albeit, the respective activity opens the file. Now here a cross road is presented: 1) Do we use a prin