[Openicc] What is exactly needed: Gutenprint GUI selectors

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello list, hello robert,
If we have a serialized Gutenprint Settings, I would recommend to use 
following qualifiers / selctors as part of the setting, which are 
displayed in the printing GUI (e.g. CPD)

1) MediaType (Should be detailed as needed)
e.g.
- Photopaper Generic
- Epson Photopaper 210g

2) Resolution / Quality Mode
e.g.
360 DpI - draft
720 DpI - High Quality
1440 DpI - Best Quality

These qualifiers could be used either in a PPD, from which the Printing 
GUI is generated or they could be used as ICC profile DictType 
Meta-data, if a Colormanagement Framework like e.g. g-c-m or Oyranos is 
involved in creating the printing GUI.
In the last case, the PPD should be stripped of from color relevant entries.

Please note for the ICC case, that I would additionally include the 
complete settings also as ICC dictType Meta-data.
The two qualifiers / selectors are used to create the Printing GUI from 
the available printer ICC-profiles but hiding the profile filenames from 
the user interaction.

The complete driver settings have to be communicated to 
rastertogutenprint (e.g. as CUPS job ticket data extracted from the ICC 
profile...)

Best regards
Jan-Peter


Am 03.06.11 02:18, schrieb Robert Krawitz:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:13:28 -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>>> On 02.06.2011 12:19, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>>> On 2 June 2011 10:58, Kai-Uwe Behrmann<ku.b at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>>>> I dont say " Choose Profile ->  Implies Printer Settings paradigm" should
>>>>> be the only one. Its just important to have in the toolbox.
>>>> In my opinion it's fundamentally flawed. An ICC profile is not a
>>> ICC profile selection is a part of the freedom of choice. I do not see
>>> anything flaw in this idea. Thats of course different from providing
>>> only particial freedom like source code to a GUI without selection
>>> options. IMO the later one is flawed as it only talkes about freedom,
>>> but in reallity takes freedom away by making learning and customising
>>> extremely difficult.
>> The challenge is providing the right amount of freedom for the
>> user. Too much and your UI is confusing or scary - Gutenprint is an
>> example of this. Too little and your UI is just a toy and unusable
>> by advanced/expert users.
> I'm happy to accept suggestions about how to better organize the
> options so that people only see the options they need, but I'm not
> going to eliminate options from Gutenprint altogether just because
> they might be confusing or scary.
>
>


-- 
----------  Please note the new adress --------------

homann colormanagement --------- fon +49 30 611 075 18
Jan-Peter Homann ------------ mobile +49 171 54 70 358
Cotheniusstr. 3 -------- http://www.colormanagement.de
10407 Berlin -------- mailto:homann at colormanagement.de