[Openicc] Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 8, 2011, at 4:12 PM, edmund ronald wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> The problem here is the enthusiast. A printer will last longer than a
> comp, say 4 years, and a user will have 1 to 20 or so packs of paper
> floating around his house. The desktop guys can give us a media-choice
> interface as a pulldown for each printer queue, or we can have
> separate queues, or all of the above.
> 
> I don't think that anything like today's Gutenprint interface or even
> Apple's is feasible to inflict on the user any longer. In fact I heard
> some print guy called Chris say that he finds the Gutenprint interface
> confusing :)

I was thinking of the portion of the interface that Gutenprint does not control or affect. The part where you select printers (queues), and also presets. So the Gutenprint issue is of course related to all of the UI questions, but it's also a separate thing than making a print dialog more organized. Keep in mind I'm coming from a Mac OS mentality: OS provides queues and presets and some panels like number of copies, paper source (tray), mirroring, rotation, and then the printer PPD provides printer specific options.

I still think the enthusiast is better off with a commercial product than building something for a (market potential wise) a small number of people that requires a lot of engineering effort to make it more presentable to such a workflow. Maybe I'm wrong on these counts.

Chris