Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> I'd like to get to a stage where for the default user, everything 'Just
> Works' [1] as much as humanly possible - although obviously having a
> simple to use set of configuration dialogs to do more complicated tasks.
That is the reason for putting out the initial posting :)
>
> I would personally advise us to already start looking at the new GTK+
> printing stack, seeing what that gives us, and develop a printing roadmap.
>
The current status of the GTK+ printing stack is here:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomePrinting?highlight=%28printing%29
( as Paul was looking for it).
This is definetly going to be a big part of the desktop printing
solution, since we are working with the community and will continue to
do so, no point developing something that we will end up having to have
to maintain it ourselves.
One thing for sure, OpenSolaris/Solaris will suppliment the GTK+
printing stack in the backend for either PAPI/LP.
>
> Glynn
>
> [1] Seriously, printing should be the easiest task in the world. I can
> select a default printer from a list of auto-detected printers.
> It'll auto-detect what type of printer that is, and tell me the
> appropriate settings I can choose from to print my document. If I
> plug in a new USB printer directly, it'll tell me that a new printer
> is available. Done. No messing around with localhost:631, no messing
> around on the command line. And I certainly don't need to know about
> LP, CUPS, PAPI or any other underlying technology I'm using.
The GUI should abstract as much as possible the underlying
technologies from the users, agreed. Of course there have been so many
GUI were designed by engineers who know only too well the technologies
underneath and somehow reflected in the GUI design :) That is why we
need people of Calum.
-Ghee
