Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 22:30, Kevin Kofler via devel <
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Solomon Peachy wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:27:03AM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
>> >> I do not see how that is the common use case. Why would I want to
>> >> print from my telephone? I do not even normally print from my
>> >> notebook!
>> >
>> > I don't think it's controversial to say that one needs to print from
>> > whatever computing devices one uses.
>>
>> If I am sitting next to my printer, I have a desktop computer in front of
>> me
>> from which I can issue the print job, so why would I want to do it from a
>> notebook or smartphone?
>>
> Kevin. No one is saying YOU want to print from your phone. However this
> software is not written just for you. Solomon and others do not write the
> software just for you but for the several million people who have to use
> printers in all different kinds of environments.
What I am objecting to is the assumption that all of those several million
people will want to print from anything with a CPU ("whatever computing
devices one uses") or that that is even the common case.
Of course, if all you have is a smartphone, then you will want to print from
it. But that is not going to be the central use case for Fedora (even though
it may be a niche use case for those running Fedora on the PinePhone ;-) ).
> For a good proportion of those people out there.. printing from the phone
> is an expected feature be it instagram memes or that pdf your department
> head sent out which is too small to read on the phone.
Sent out per e-mail? Then you fire up your desktop e-mail client (on your
desktop or notebook) and print from there.
> So it is going to be something Solomon and others will focus on or they
> might as well scrap printing.
That is quite a strong wording.
Kevin Kofler
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