[Openicc] Communication between Printer Driver and Oyranos

[edmund ronald]

> I think it makes a lot of sense to talk about target groups of user
> and what high level interactions they *want* to have with a CMS, and
> from real research, the number of people that actually know what a CMS
> is, how it works, and actually want anything else than "make the
> printer look right" is a tiny, tiny fraction of the desktop userbase.
>
> As soon as we ask the user what dithering algorithm they want to use,
> or if the paper has FWA added, we've failed.
>
> With colord, I'm aiming to solve 100% of the problem for 95% of users.
> The other 5% already know what they are doing and don't need DBus
> interfaces and shiny GUIs to configure things.
>
> Richard.
> _______________________________________________

Agreed.

Now, I suggest hat if Jenny has just bought Hannemühle Rag for her
Epson 12345, she can get the system to automagically download settings
and a canned profile from www.linuxprinting.org, and then print
wothout knowing *anything*

Edmund