[Sugar-devel] Print Support (journal vs activity)

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

It's entirely unclear what this project has morphed to.  Tomeu, what use is
uploading arbitrary journal entries to Moodle?  I thought creating pdf
output in sugar and enabling uploading of the pdf to Moodle was the point of
this project.  That is useful in two ways.  First, it is a path to
assignment turn-in or printing either through Moodle or by other transports
to a system configured to print pdfs.  It also allows a student to review
the printer-ready output to decide if it is worth getting hard copy.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:29, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> > Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> Printing is not limited to uploading files to moodle, we provide both
> >> local and server printing and users will use whatever works in their
> >> environment.
> >
> > I think this is too much for one Summer of Code project.  That's why I
> > have been recommending that we forget about local printing for now.
>
> I would actually be happy if we just implemented sending journal
> entries to the print queue and the moodle module. Print to pdf has
> several important use cases and I would like to see it implemented for
> 0.86 for at least Write and Browse, but I don't think it needs to be
> part of this GSoC.
>
> > Anyway, on a purely technical level I think we have reached agreement.
>  (I
> > do wonder whether the Moodle print queue should also support acting as a
> > standard print server, so that standard desktops can print into the
> Moodle
> > approval queue, but that's a detail.)
>
> Yeah, I would prefer if we use simple file upload at first because it
> works already.
>
> There's lots of fun stuff to do in this area, but what gives most
> value to the user is quite straightforward. We should aim to leave the
> complicated stuff for the end, as extras, and focus on delivering what
> matters most first
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > - --Ben
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