[Desktop_printing] Gtk+ Printing Dialog
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
ku.b at gmx.de
Wed Jan 25 11:23:26 PST 2006
Am 25.01.06, 16:40 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 12:52 +0100, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > Alexander,
> >
> > is the Gtk+ code intented to work inside Gtk only?
> > Could you make it possible, to turn the planed printing dialog into
> > something generic, useable for other toolkits as well? Maybe this can be
> > achieved by modularising. So toolkit specific things are separate.
> >
> > A unified dialog would be a chance to bring the printing behaviour in
> > sync and take the desktop as one coordinated product.
> > Applictions like Scribus, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, CinePaint should all
> > behave in a similiar way. A common effort between KDE, Gnome, FLTK ...
> > developers would be much appreciated. Each of the above applications has
> > unique features, which will not be copied easily.
> > Adobe's CreativeSuite is a good example, how a group of appliations can
> > work close together.
>
> My task is to design a printing API for gtk+, including a dialog to use
> on Linux. This dialog will naturally be written in gtk+, since this it
Noone is suggeting to use pure cairo calls to draw buttons. But you will
define some kind of API to use the dialog. But maybe I've got a wrong
impression and you plan a plain dialog without much logic inside.
If there is a critical mass of logic inside, this would be interessting to
bring in sync with other toolkits. For instance options about how to deal
with internet PDF's versus print PDF's. A internet PDF should be something
about 72-90 dpi, for printing 200-300 dpi is more appropriate. Which of
these modes is the default. Where to place a configuration so it applies
to all applications equally.
Printers seems to have diffculties with plain PDF documents. A print
dialog with its API could help in setting standards, which goes beyond MS
Word.
> is specially written for gtk+. It might be possible for other
> applications to use a gtk+ dialog (i.e. OOo can do this with the gtk+
> file selector dialog), but that is the extent of cross-toolkit support
> the dialog it will have.
Ok, so you plan a plain frontend.
> I'm all for working together on the backend design and implementation
> though, so that all toolkits show the same printers and things like
> that.
Looks like there is a middlend missing, or I have overseen it.
regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
+ development for color management
+ imaging / panoramas
+ email: ku.b at gmx.de
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