[hpoj-devel] New screenshot

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Paschal wrote:
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> Thanks for putting this together.  That's a really cute picture!  However,
> a printer with its tongue sticking out isn't quite the emotion I wanted to
> convey here.  :-)
>

But many officejets _do_ have a big tongue sticking out to catch the paper!
I agree though, that this graphic isn't appropriate for the serious business
app that you seem to be planning. For home users, some graphics would be
nice. If skin support were added some day, stranger things than this could find
their way onto the main window.

 > I haven't done a lot of serious thinking on the matter yet, but basically
> my vision was to have a list of attached devices (which would probably be
> only one for most people, but many for me:-) on the left side (for example,
> mlc:mlcpp0, hpjd:my-jdex.my-domain.com:1, etc.), and when you clicked on
> one you would get a bunch of tabbed dialog boxes in the remainder of the
> window, which would provide various status information and control options
> for the selected device.  To list some possibilities by tab:

< much deletion here>
 
> Did I say I haven't thought about this very much?  :-)  In any case, this
> is a lot of functionality, and it would be a good idea to start small.
> I also still need to try to get specs on some things, like how to determine
> ink/toner levels and clean/align cartridges.
> 
> Does anyone have ideas to add to this wishlist for xojpanel-on-steroids?
> 
> David
> 


It already seems like a bigger project than I imagined it would be. It
probably wouldn't take long to put together a dialog with most of the things you
mentioned, but I'm not a professional at this, so If there is an experienced
GUI designer involved in the project, that certainly would be the person to do
it.

If there isn't one available, I'm willing to help with whatever I can. At the
moment that would be limited to drag-and-drop *.ui creation and
auto-generating a  *.cpp and *.h file from each *.ui, a project file and Makefile.
That is actually all done easily with the autogeneration tools. Someone with
strong c++ coding skills would need to do the actual implementation afterwards.

If you decide to use gtk instead of Qt, maybe Qt-generated files or previews
could still be used as a rough guide. 

I have a new screenshot available at

http://pages.cthome.net/jsp/hpoj-linux-gui/hpoj-gui.html

It looks more like what you described. This one is only a designer preview.

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Joe