Where: Linux Foundation Office in Tokyo
When: Tuesday, July 8, 9:30am-5:00pm
For everyone who cannot attend in person we try to set up call-in access to the meeting. Please call in at any time during the meeting (9:30am - 5pm Tokyo time or 12:30am - 8am UTC/GMT or MONDAY 5:30pm - Tuesday 1am in San Francisco) using the following phone number:
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and the access code
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July 8
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Introduction Till Kamppeter, OpenPrinting Manager, The Linux Foundation (Slides) |
| 10:00am - 12:30pm | The Common Printing Dialog Peter Sikking, OpenUsability Till Kamppeter, OpenPrinting Manager, The Linux Foundation Peter Sikking, leader of the user interface design development of the Common Printing Dialog will show a first prototype of the dialog. We will also present the specifications of the UI design, the application interface and the user interface control from, the driver side, via PPD files. We will discuss the specs so that they can get finalized. Peter's abstract: ’Printing that just works’ is the vision of the openPrinting project, run by the linux foundation. Changing the printing experience from a liability to an asset, for every linux desktop out there. There is full support from every printing manufacturer for this project. The printing dialog is an important part of that. The current versions on GNOME andKDE were found to ‘just not work’ (in a usability sense) and the usability and interaction professionals of openUsability got involved. The redesign project that followed led to the first innovation in printing UI since 1995 on any platform, it was probably in the 80’s that a interaction professional was actually involved with the printing experience. The principal interaction architect of the project shows in this talk the complexities involved, why ‘printing does not exist,’ what is wrong with printing dialogs today and the innovation to overcome that. The latest designs and first implementation of the dialog (if we’re lucky) is shown. (Peter's UI design presentation as blog) (Slides about the specifications) More info |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Auto-Downloadable Distribution-Independent Driver Packages Till Kamppeter, OpenPrinting Manager, The Linux Foundation Status report and discussion * The driver packages themselves (Is LSB DDK OK? Or is there still something needed) * The database server (database and contribution management, indexing, signing, PPDs vs. packages, data provided by the database) * The client tools (system-config-printer, Jockey, …) (Slides) |
| 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Coffee |
| 2:45pm - 3:45pm | PDF as Standard Print Job Format Till Kamppeter, OpenPrinting Manager, The Linux Foundation Status of the CUPS filters and integration of the filters in Linux distributions * Status report from OP Japan and also about the work of GSoC student Tobias Hoffmann * Integration of the filters in Linux distributions (copy of library sources) * Non-latin text support in textopdf (fonts, …) * Problems with PDFs with DRM and conversions of them by print filters (Slides) |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | Discussion |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm | Wrap-up |