On 01/29/2013 07:10 PM, Benjamin De Kosnik wrote:
1) is there a way to test just the cups-1.6 stuff on F18? Or will people who want to help with this effort be running rawhide?
Either run rawhide or use builds from http://jpopelka.fedorapeople.org/cups-1.6/ which is what I run here on F18.
2) will there be a way to parallel install current-1.5 with the beta-1.6 stack?
No
3) in "how to test" there is no mention of print quality regressions. I'm concerned that in the effort to sync with cups-1.6 and upstream, mostly just the mechanics of finding a printer and getting a page out are being tested. This is just scratching the surface. How are you going to evaluate quality? I'm concerned about the rasterization changes, the filter changes. Hopefully 1.6 may solve some of the image-quality regressions I've been seeing.
'How to test' needs to be enhanced, yes.
4) In the past, I've found it difficult to debug cups filters step by step. Especially with so many rasterization/filter changes. As part of the move to 1.6, will things like: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems be updated?
These instructions are still valid with cups-1.6 & cups-filters.
I would love it if issues like "what driver am I using" could be re-integrated into the UI, or perhaps an admin level of the ui. Also, "what filters did I run to get to this point of output" in a log file.
What UI do you have in mind ? system-config-printer ?
Will the "running cups filters" by hand thing be updated?
Maybe later when we have 1.6 in all releases. I don't see a reason at the moment. The example there is just an example and what filters are run depends on the PPD.
5) integration with common printing dialog. (IMHO localhost:631). I think integrating Fedora's print dialogs with the wider user communities on macos and ubuntu would be very useful.
Not sure what you mean with "Fedora's". The print dialogs we use on Fedora are part of GTK/QT and therefore are used on Ubuntu too.
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