openPrinting + the dialog...

[peter sikking <peter mmiworks net>]

Hi all,

I am an interaction architect and active in the openUsability scene.

Some of you know me from my work on GIMP, see:

<http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/labels/GIMP.html>

Others I have met at the last linuxTag. Hello again.

The reason I chime in here is the openPrinting project.
The goal of this project is to bring "printing that just works"
to every linux desktop. The project has wall–to–wall support of
printing manufacturers, linux distros and dektop platforms.

Some of you may know this project, Larry Ewing presented the
gtk printing dialog spring last year to the openPrinting summit
in Atlanta.

OpenUsability is also involved with this project, that means that
professional usability experts and interaction architects are
giving user interaction in the printing workflow a fresh look in
a structural way.

I am leading the interaction architecture side. Currently we are
concentrating on print dialogs, the printer installation side will
be dealt with later on in the project.

Here is in my blog the progress we have made up to now, in reverse
chronological order:

<http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/labels/openPrinting.html>

Now that we have mock-ups to show of the new concepts we are introducing
in the printing dialog, it is the right time to start working with
the UI toolkits like gtk on moving towards implementation.

I would like to get in touch with those of you who work(ed) on
the gtk print dialog, to ramp up a cooperation.

look forward to working with you guys,

    --ps

        principal user interaction architect
        man + machine interface works

        http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture