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From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
To: printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Status and future of the Common Printing Dialog (CPD)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:31:02 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FA8396.2060504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2FfiE6XGBAv6ZvBQk-N-waOJQLLO-YY5oKUSEvxmjO2t1GLA@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/29/2016 09:19 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> In the meantime, the GNOME designers designed something different[1]
> which suited the design style for GNOME, e.g. using GtkSwitch to make
> it easy to use on touchscreens. I think it's completely fine to have
> different dialogs on KDE and GNOME, and even on applications for the
> same desktop as long as they have been designed to be easy to use for
> the specific use cases the application cares about.
>
> Richard
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Printing

Great, I like this new design, especially with the Chromium-like preview 
integration (preview integration was also was I liked a lot in the CPD). 
Also the touchscreen support is important as convertibles (laptops which 
double as a tablet) get more common.

And great to see that the GNOME developers are actively working on the 
print dialog. I feared that the efforts on it have practically died.

My dream of the times of the CPD was that common dialogs like 
Open/Save/Print are always coming from the desktop in use and not from 
the app, with the app's call for the dialog let's the GUI library call 
the dialog via D-Bus. This should give the user experience of a clean 
interface of having the same dialogs for the same tasks.

    Till

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-26 15:03 [Printing-architecture] Status and future of the Common Printing Dialog (CPD) Michael Weghorn
2016-03-26 15:42 ` Richard Hughes
2016-03-26 17:01   ` John Layt
2016-03-26 18:19     ` Michael Weghorn
2016-03-27 16:04 ` peter sikking
2016-03-28 19:49   ` Michael Weghorn
2016-03-29  9:23   ` Richard Hughes
2016-03-29 11:36     ` peter sikking
2016-03-29 12:19       ` Richard Hughes
2016-03-29 13:31         ` Till Kamppeter [this message]
2016-03-29 18:41         ` peter sikking
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-26 19:31 Ira McDonald
2016-03-26 22:19 ` Michael Weghorn
2016-03-26 22:21 ` Richard Hughes
2016-03-26 22:59   ` Ira McDonald

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