Report on printing dialogs
July 9, 2007
I am currently working on a report about printing dialogs. The report will present the design I propose for the KDE print dialog. It will discuss a number of printing dialogs used by other major desktop environment, operating systems or applications.
The report is going well. Writing the text is not that hard, most of the ideas and results where allready there. Gathering screenshots for all the different dialogs is proving a bit harder, but nothing that cannot be done.
Tomorrow the report should be finished. I will make it public on this blog as a PDF file. My main hope is for the report to spark some discussion about my proposal and print dialogs in general. I am not a usability expert, so input from other people is all I have next to my own experience.

July 11, 2007 at 9:20 am
Hey, Rutger,
I just came across your work now (and your SoC engagement); that’s why I want to point your attention to these links (just in case you don’t know them yet):
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-summit/2007/date.html
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-summit/2007/001109.html
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-summit/2007/001110.html
Cheers,
Kurt [interested in seeing your final report soon]