Speakers
Description
*This BoF allows remote attendance
During my work on the New Architecture for printing at OpenPrinting and a recent discussion with GNOME developers and designers, I have 2 subjects I want to discuss in-person:
- UI Design for the GNOME Control Center "Printers" module with support for the New Architecture
For some years already CUPS is capable to print to IPP print destinations in the network (physical printers, shared CUPS queues, Printer Applications) without the need of creating a local CUPS queue with a printer driver. From CUPS 3.x on (release next year) this will even be the only way to print with CUPS, classic CUPS printer drivers will not be supported anymore.
This requires changes in the "Printers" module of G-C-C, once listing the IPP print destination in the main view, with appropriate property and status display, config option and button to open web admin interface, ...and second, supporting Printer Applications (new format for printer drivers, emulating an IPP printer and communicating with printer hardware) in the "Add printer" dialog.
GSoC contributor Mohit Verma has already done most of the coding for it. We will discuss on the BoF the optimization and finalization of the user interface. Up to then we will have already suggestions by Mohit, by Canonical's UI designers and done some discussion with Jakub.
https://openprinting.github.io/current/#the-new-architecture-for-printing-and-scanning
https://github.com/vermamohit13/GSOC_2022_Summary
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2023/#test-the-gui-changes-for-the-new-architecture
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/settings-mockups/-/blob/master/printers/printers.png
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/settings-mockups/-/issues/38
- Separation of GTK printing API into its own project
Matthias Clasen suggests moving the printing API of GTK (or at least most of it) into a separate library or even a separate project. Here we will discuss the advantages and shortcomings, what exactly will stay in GTK what moved out, CUPS.CPDB support, print dialog, ...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5816
Big Blue Button: BoF Room 1
Venue: Room 336
