[Printing-architecture] Updated PPD extensions

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 13:37:28 PDT 2009


Hi Till,

Of course, a BETTER hint about a Fax number would be
for the string option to contain a 'fax:' URI (RFC 2806).

Just a thought.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Till Kamppeter<till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to fulfill the needs of Peter's last dialog UI design, there is a field
> in the dialog now for short descriptions of the quick presets. To allow
> individual, user-friendy help texts there (and not simply list the
> options which get set by the quick preset) I have added the new
>
> *APPrinterPresetDescription <choice>: "<description>"
>
> keyword and translations for it. I also added fallback rules for filling
> the description field when the new keyword is not used or when the
> presets come from a fallback (like the PrintoutMode option in Foomatic
> PPDs).
>
> For multi-function printers I have added the new widget hint
> "faxnumber", so that one can tell that a string option represents a fax
> number and so one can add a button to the string input field which opens
> the user's address book.
>
> See all the changes in
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/PPDExtensions
>
> Click "History" at the bottom to visualize only the changes.
>
> Please take these new extensions into account for the dialog.
>
>    Till
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