Re: Suggestions For User Interface?

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 10:07 +0200, Quintin van Rooyen wrote:
>  First, would it not make more sense to leave the "Show printers
> shared
>  by other systems" button ticked by default? Either that or when
>  someone is searching for a CUPS printer have that option be presented
>  there to him. 
Well, this is more to do with the default configuration of CUPS.  Not
sure which distribution you are using -- I think most use the upstream
default, which is to show printers shared by other systems (i.e.
Browsing On).

>  Second, the excellent help dialog - on the server settings screen
>  labeled "Problems", it might be great to have that be visible either
>  on the main printer setup screen, or even display when you click add a
>  new printer on the "Select Device" screen, or all three. 
Visible how?  Really it's only something you need to see if you are
already experiencing problems with printing.

>  Finally, what do you guys use to build that interface? 
It's designed using glade-3 for the most part, but with some parts
constructed at run-time programmatically.

Tim.
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