[Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

[Till Kamppeter <till kamppeter gmx net>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> I don't remember any such discussion, though I could be wrong. I think
> it's highly unlikely. It's more likely that the GNOME print system was
> difficult to do and started out with something simple. And it hasn't had
> much attention lately while we've waited for other parts of the printing
> system to fall into place.
> 
> The gnome-print list might be a better place to discuss this:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-print-list/
>

Thanks for the link, I will have a look there.

> Also, there seems to be consensus that we are now almost ready to get a
> real standard print dialog into GTK+ itself, so gtk-devel-list is suitable
> too. But rather than cross-posting this probably needs someone to
> coordinate things, if nobody is doing it already. Your ideas are a great
> start on this.
> 

In which time frame will this be done? If it take 6 months or longer, a
quick interim solution (like adding a tab/a "More options" button to the
current dialog) to at least get the hardware fully accessible would be nice.

   Till