From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48355362.8010600@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 13:05:06 +0200 From: Till Kamppeter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Printing-architecture] Common Printing Dialog: News from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Prague List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org, Alexander Wauck , Peter Sikking , Jonathan Riddell , Celeste Lyn Paul , Josef Spillner Hi, I have been on the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Prague now and there I have run two discussion sessions about the dialog and I had also some discussion outside these sessions. Especially we are trying to get as many applications as possible using a Common Printing Dialog in Ubuntu Intrepid and also to have the OpenUsability-designed dialog to be the Common Printing Dialog of Ubuntu Intrepid. Feature Freeze for Ubuntu Intrepid is end of August. The Ubuntu Blueprint is here https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/applications-printing and the blueprint Wiki (editable by everyone) with the minutes of the meetings, suggestions, problems, plans, ... is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingStandardization Especially please everyone with contacts to desktop application developers, tell them that we would like to have this dialog and to help with the needed modifications of the applications. Biggest challenge currently is that several apps modify the standard dialogs of KDE and GNOME by defining their own dialog class inheriting the library's dialog class so that they can add application-specific options. To get the application-specific options in with DBUS-plugged dialog which can be of another desktop these apps need to be modified. We have also tried out Alex'code which he has uploaded to the BZR repository. Unfortunately, it does not compile out of the box. Please use the patch linked in the Blueprint Wiki to make the code working. Alex, can you incorporate the patch? Thanks. Till