Ilmari, thank you very much for taking this into the Engineering
Steering Committee (ESC) meeeting today! And buovjaga to suggest this on
IRC.
Thorsten, thank you very much for your detailed meeting minutes and the
quick posting of them.
Heiko, there will be no UI change at all. The changes are only how the
dialog gets
- The list of available printers
- For a printer selected by the user
o The list of user-settable options with the available choices for
each option (like Media Source: Tray 1, Tray 2, Bypass Tray, ...)
o The list of all page sizes with unprintable margins, for correct
previews
o A job sent to the printer
This will not done any more by the dialog directly talking to CUPS. but
to the CPDB libraries. What the user sees and how they operate it will
not change.
This should not really be "massive" changes. As an example, here is the
Merge Request for the CPDB support om the GTK dialog:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4930
And the commit on LibreOffice back in 2017, with the very first version
of CPDB:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/40565
Heiko, and thanks for stepping up to help mentoring on the UI/UX side,
so if there is a change on the UI needed (low probablility) or the
switch to CPDB would help for a better UI, your insight would help us a lot!
Heiko, could you provide me your full name and e-mail address, so that I
can invite you?
Generally, we can invite and line up mentors at any time until the end
of the coding, but I would appreciate a lot for anyone to step up before
the ranking deadline, as the higher our number of mentors lined up, the
higher the chances that we get our requested slot count, and so assure
that very project we want to run will actually take place.
Also the sooner we get someone stepping up, the sooner Kushagra can
start working and has someone to talk to on the LibreOffice side.
To step up, please tell me your full name and e-mail address, so that I
can invite you and you can register in Google's web app. Only condition
is that you do not participate as a contributor/student in this year's GSoC.
I hope we will have a great collaboration here.
Till
On 06/04/2023 18:16, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
[...]
> * GSoC (Ilmari)
> + Who wants to join OpenPrinting as a mentor:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-April/090210.html
> + Till Kamppeter's proposal for collaboration on adding support
for the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB)
>
> + mostly co-mentoring & backup, navigating LibO code
>
> + will check (Hossein)
>
> + slighty concerned with UI changing via openprinting (Heiko)
>
> + careful to change things massively... (Heiko)
>
> + willing to co-mentor for UI/UX too (Heiko)
>
> + AI interested mentors, please poke Till!
>
> + timeline: 27th of April ranking needs to be done
> + mentors being invited, joining the org
[...]
On 04/04/2023 19:33, Till Kamppeter wrote:
LibreOffice is one of the few applications which have their own print
dialog, and do not use one of the desktop environment toolkit's (GTK/Qt)
ones primarily (AFAIR one can use the GTK one optionally, selecting in
the settings).
[...]
As this is most probably not the last major change needed and also for
print dialogs to support other print technologies than CUPS, for example
cloud printing services, I have created already 5 years ago, the concept
of the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB):
https://openprinting.github.io/achievements/#common-print-dialog-backends
[...]
