[Openicc] colord information

[edmund ronald]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:39:56 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote:
>> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>> Edmund's point still stands: what is the definition of "normal
>>> people"?  Folks who just want to print snapshots downloaded from their
>>> phone, or something more sophisticated?  I think a lot of developers
>>> underestimate what users want to do.
>>
>> I think it's a mistake to target something like Linux printing
>> at a single idea of a user. There is no single user, there is
>> a huge range of users. Instead the systems should aim to make
>> simple things easy, and complicated things possible. This
>> translates to a graduated set of facilities.
>
> A former colleague of used the phrase "successive disclosure of
> complexity" to describe this, and I think it's a good principle.
> Despite its reputation, we do want to make Gutenprint easy to use for
> inexperienced users, but not to give up capability for power users.
>
> Having simple PPD files with bundled settings will certainly help
> here.
>
> --


Hehe, paradoxically the canned-profile color-managed settings are
actually the ones which would be locked down most strongly -or else
the profile is useless.
So people printing with a profile should not need to see much of the
driver settings apart from the media-type selection.

Edmund