Re: Gutenprint Printer Application (Native)

On 21/09/2021 17:01, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Till,
> 
> The point should not be to propagate hundreds or thousands of printer-specific knobs to trip up the user (even expert users!)
> 
> It makes more sense to provide a Gutenprint-specific web UI that allows (expert) users to do test prints and tweak those knobs. Once you are happy with the settings, save them with a name ("Bob's Photo Preset") and expose the presets as single vendor extension attribute, which then shows up in the print dialog.
> 

Makes much more sense to me.

In the retro-fitting Gutenprint Printer Application I will continue with 
the simplified PPDs for now, as the retro-fit is an interim solution 
where we should not spend too much time on.

I suggest for the native GutenPrint Printer Application an additional 
web interface page for the printers (as I did with the PostScript 
Printer Application where I have added "Device Settings" to configure 
the installable accessories).

One could add an "Advanced Settings" page, where one can set all these 
extra options, with tabs for the logical groups of the options, a better 
way to adjust numeric values (instead of 2 enumerated choices for coarse 
and fine adjustment), buttons for saving the settings under a name 
(preset), for switching between prsets, 
removing/renaming/copying/cloning presets. And if there is at least one 
preset, the "Printing Defaults" get an "Advanced Settings" vendor 
option, where one can choose between "Default" and each of the save presets.

    Till