Re: [Printing-architecture] [Gimp-print-devel] Looking ahead to 5.3

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

Robert Krawitz wrote:
>    Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:35:31 +0200
>    From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
> 
>    Another point is completing the PPD extensions for the Common Printing 
>    Dialog. Most important point is tagging the options, so that they show 
>    up with the right tags being selected.
> 
>    See
> 
>    http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/CommonPrintingDialog
>    http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PPDExtensions
> 
> I still don't much care for this limitation of 6 tags being available
> for the driver.  If nothing else, we could use some assistance in
> figuring out how to categorize all of the options.
> 
> In general, I'd really like to have a way to hide the advanced
> options.  I know full well that the vast majority of people have no
> interest in them, but that's not a reason to make them entirely
> unavailable to the people who do have reason to use them.
> Philosophically, I don't care for this dumbing down approach.  I know
> I'm not the only person out there who likes to have fine-grained
> controls available!
> 
> (I'd also like to have generalized piecewise or dense curves available
> in CUPS, but that's another matter.)

Perhaps we should find a solution together with Peter Sikking, designer 
of the Common Printing Dialog.

Peter, the Gutenprint driver has far too many option groups for the 
limited amount of tags in the Common Printing Dialog. What is your 
suggestion how to let the options of Gutenprint get presented in the 
Common Printing Dialog?

    Till