[Desktop_architects] RUDI + Current User Experience with Desktop Printing Capabilities (was: "Presentation slides - with attached templates")

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 02:16 +0000, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> It is even worse for Mozilla/Firefox printing. If you want to scare your
> Firefox-on-Linux using secretary next Halloween, just show her the dialog
> with the "Print Command:" line that opens if you click on "Properties..."
> in the print dialog.

Yeah, now that we at least have basic CUPS support that should be
hidden.

> It is things like that where the proposal for a RUDI protocol/layer can 
> make a huge difference to users: the application (be it Java, be it 
> Acrobat, or Mozilla, OpenOffice, a Qt-only program or Gnome) just asks
> inside the user-selected environment (KDE, Gnome, whatever): "Give
> me the environment's print (fileopen, saveas...) dialog, I have a file
> to print".

Cool. Please ensure we will be able to get app-specific UI in there.
(E.g., for us, "print HTML frames on separate pages? yes/no".) Same goes
for Save/Open dialogs etc.

Rob