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

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

Robert Krawitz wrote:
>    Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:38:58 +0200
>    From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
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>    CC: Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu>,
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> 	   gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, peter@mmiworks.net
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>    Alastair M. Robinson wrote:
>    > Hi :)
>    > 
>    > Robert Krawitz wrote:
>    > 
>    >> When you get right down to it, Gutenprint at its core really is a
>    >> hardware driver (or a package of hardware drivers).  It's not an
>    >> application the way GIMP is -- it's a piece of infrastructure.
>    > 
>    > True - however it doesn't have the luxury enjoyed by other pieces of 
>    > infrastructure of being isolated from end-users.  If I go to 
>    > localhost:631, click on my printer and hit Set Printer Options, I see a 
>    > user-interface.  CUPS *presents* this user-interface, but which controls 
>    > I see and how they're grouped is determined by Gutenprint.  It may not 
>    > be an application, but there are user-facing aspects.
>    > 
>    > Incidentally, Peter, if an option exists in the PPD but isn't tagged, 
>    > what happens?  Will it appear in the Common Printing Dialog?
>    > And what happens if an APPrinterPreset specifies a value for an untagged 
>    > option?  Will it still be set?
> 
>    See my specs of the PPD extensions for the Common Printing Dialog:
> 
>    http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PPDExtensions
> 
>    Untagged PPDs will use the PPD groups as tags as a fallback. So options 
>    will be shown in a reasonable order, But the advantage of one option 
>    baing able to have more than one tag is not made use of with this fallback.
> 
> What happens if there are more than 11 or what have you PPD groups?
> Same as what you describe below?
> 

Yes.

>    Each APPrinterPreset will create a quick preset button in the left
>    column of the dialog. And the button will always set all options
>    which it is supposed to set, independent of tags and groups.
> 
> What's the upper limit on the number of presets?
> 

There is no upper limit defined. Peter, what should happen if there are 
too many quick preset buttons to fit into the area on the left?

    Till