[Openicc] Epson HTM ... (Gutenprint Settings)

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello Robert and all,
I´m happy to hear, that you are working on settings for Gutenprint, 
which can be exported and imported.
Please take care, that it is possible to assign a ICC-profile to the 
setting.

Now we have think about, how the printer driver can make the ICC profile 
systemwide available for every applications or shared library, which 
wants to convert data into the printer setting colorspace.

I believe, that both Oyranos and Gnome Color Manager (g-c-m) / colord 
are candidates to deliver such functionality.

Two more points:
- How will a Gutenprint setting being communicated to the Common Print 
Dialogue (CPD) ?
- How will Oyranos / g-c-m be notified, which setting has been choosed 
in CPD to provide the correct printer setting ICC profile to 
Appplications or shared libraries ?

Can anybody please comment this from a developers perspective ?

Thanks and best regards
Jan-Peter

Am 08.02.11 04:03, schrieb Robert Krawitz:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 03:49:49 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
>> There's been some debate between me and the other Gutenprint guys on
>> the topic of locked down drivers. The open source ethos is full
>> tunability, while as a color consultant my desire is to keep the
>> client's big messy paws away from the HurtMe buttons.
> There's nothing preventing us from generating locked down PPD files
> for Gutenprint.  The "debate" is more how best to do it than whether
> to, and right now it looks like the settings file, as Edmund noted, is
> the way we're going to go.  Clearly the full range of Gutenprint
> options isn't what most people want, but we have some users doing some
> very oddball things with rather unusual "inks".
>
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Chris Murphy<lists at colorremedies.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I think a tool that creates a locked down PPD to present fully
>>> packaged settings is what any mortal person really wants. That tool
>>> can expose all kinds of stuff if you want. But for the primary
>>> print dialog to present 24 panels of incoherent (to normal people)
>>> options is, IMO, going to go no where. That's turning that person's
>>> bedroom or office into a laboratory requiring a lot of
>>> experimentation. The tuning is painful and really iterative, and
>>> the UI makes the tuning way harder than it really needs to
>>> be. There aren't 255 levels of granularity for paper thickness.
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