From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4DB9A6A9.6070100@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:40:57 +0200 From: Till Kamppeter MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Continue the OpenPrinting Activities List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Petrie, Glen" Cc: Open Printing Sorry for replying late, I had a lot of things to do and during the last weeks I was also occupied with work on the printing stack of Ubuntu Natty (11.04) which got released today. On 04/25/2011 09:21 PM, Petrie, Glen wrote: > We discussed several interesting activities at the 2011 OpenPrinting > Summit but to date there as not been much follow up. Is it possible for > us to start an email exchange on the ideas and record on the wiki the > conclusion, proposed, results or any work-products we might generate? > Or, are the ideas below just on hold. > > I see the following activities. > > 1. JTAPI Implementation > 1. I know this has been discussed many time. Unfortunately, we got no student applications for this, so, Glen, it would be great if your manager gives you some cycles to work on this. > 2. CPD – Being Common > 3. CPD – Skins > 1. OpenPrinting default skin(s) > 4. CPD – Mobile Implementation > 5. CPD – The Backend > 1. What is it? > 2. An implementation > I have talked with Peter about this on the OpenPrinting IRC and also with Lars on the phone. They both want to get the full CPD design to get turned reality soon (me too if we find funding). I suggest to soon start work on a "plan B" following Glen's guidelines and do the full design later. Peter asks us for making clear what the full design plan and the plan B is. Note that for a mobile implementation (touch screen instead of mouse) we need a separate design. We also did not get any student applications at OpenPrinting for the CPD. There is only a student who applied at OpenICC to work on the color management part of the CPD (and printing dialogs in general). > Can others suggest items I missed? Another item we started with on the OpenPrinting Summit is system-config-printer and GNOME's new printer setup tool. This will be continued on the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, in May 9-13. See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-system-config-printer-vs-gnome-3-control-center There I especially suggest to merge system-config-printer into the new tool by providing all the special features of it as D-Bus service and so make these features available not only in GNOME's but in all printer setup tools. Till