[Openicc] Print Color Pipeline

[Hal V. Engel]

On Monday, January 24, 2011 10:40:42 am Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 24 January 2011 18:01, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OpenPrinting in conjunction with Peter Skilling (Peter is also the person
> > who is working with GIMP on it's UI) has a nice printing UI designed as
> > part of it's Common Printing Dialog project.  Unfortunately work on the
> > CPD is at a standstill because of funding short falls.
> 
> Right. My personal view is that the open printing stuff needs to be
> pushed into a proper desktop stack like Qt and/or GTK+, but then I'm a
> toolkit kinda guy.

I agree with this.  Currently the prototype CDP UIs are for KDE including the 
use of some KDE specific widgets and GNOME.  I have not looked at the GNOME 
version so I don't know how much of it is making GNOME specific calls.  I think 
the correct approach, particularly now that KDE, as of version 4, no longer 
has it's own print dialog (IE. it always uses the Qt print widget/dialog) is 
to stay as DE agnostic as possible.  I think the OpenPrinting folks are open 
to going this direction.  Having looked at the KDE version the KDE specific 
stuff would only take a few hours of work to replace with Qt widgets.

> 
> > CPD, CUPS and Oyranos/colord need to be considered as a whole since these
> > need to integrate with each other in order to provide a seamless
> > printing environment.
> 
> I think it would make a lot of sense to write a colord<->oyranos shim
> using DBus so oyranos can talk to colord and vice-versa.
> 
> > As a side note the CPD also uses DBus.
> 
> Yes, I think DBus is a very sane dependency, even for embedded use.
> 
> Richard.