[Printing-architecture] Common Printing Dialog: News from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Prague

[Alex Wauck]

I applied the patch and uploaded the changes.  The wiki page has been edited
accordingly.

Alex

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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