<div class="gmail_quote"><br>Thank you!<br><br>I think I'll do what you said, I'll just let every activity send the print request(the file,metadata involved etc) to journal, and use it as a global dock to print the file.<br> So a button in every activity does just that with minimal tweaking around.<br> <br>Did you mean the 'difficult than is necessary' by this, or is there a grand ring to it, which i need to check again?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>Vamsi Krishna D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br> Hash: SHA1<br> <div><br> Vamsi Krishna Davuluri wrote:<br> > Hello,<br> ><br> > A Student trying to get into GSoC here<br> ><br> > After a bit of research I have come up with this approach for the mandatory<br> > requirements that a printer would assume to comply.<br> <br> </div>I think your project proposal is very good, but I think your "mandatory<br> requirements" are a bit more difficult than is necessary.<br> <br> One of Sugar's major goals is that the system should provide as many<br> services as possible automatically, so that Activities can be written very<br> simply. In the case of printing, I suggest that you consider printing<br> directly from the Journal. Perhaps in the drop-down menu for each item in<br> the Journal, there could be a "Print this item" option if the item has a<br> MIME type of (pdf, odt, png, jpg...). You would then only have to (1)<br> write a little bit of code in the Journal to add this option, and (2)<br> create a small program that can print all these different types.<br> <br> With this system, Activities don't have to know about printing, and<br> hopefully you have to write less code. If you want the user to be able to<br> print from inside an Activity, that can be arranged by placing a print<br> icon in the Activity Toolbar. When clicked, this icon triggers an<br> autosave, and then uses the same system to print directly from the datastore.<br> <br> - --Ben<br> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br> Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux)<br> <br> iEYEARECAAYFAkm9XacACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSVTwCePPdoYBzvuRebrNTejf8i4KS5<br> NLgAnREV5JxJv5JthFJiBJuWT243Lxto<br> =bEw9<br> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br> </blockquote></div><br> </div></div></div><br>