Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 22:30, Kevin Kofler via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Solomon Peachy wrote:
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:27:03AM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
I do not see how that is the common use case. Why would I want to print from my telephone? I do not even normally print from my notebook!
I don't think it's controversial to say that one needs to print from whatever computing devices one uses.
If I am sitting next to my printer, I have a desktop computer in front of me from which I can issue the print job, so why would I want to do it from a notebook or smartphone?
Kevin. No one is saying YOU want to print from your phone. However this software is not written just for you. Solomon and others do not write the software just for you but for the several million people who have to use printers in all different kinds of environments.
What I am objecting to is the assumption that all of those several million people will want to print from anything with a CPU ("whatever computing devices one uses") or that that is even the common case.
Of course, if all you have is a smartphone, then you will want to print from it. But that is not going to be the central use case for Fedora (even though it may be a niche use case for those running Fedora on the PinePhone ;-) ).
For a good proportion of those people out there.. printing from the phone is an expected feature be it instagram memes or that pdf your department head sent out which is too small to read on the phone.
Sent out per e-mail? Then you fire up your desktop e-mail client (on your desktop or notebook) and print from there.
So it is going to be something Solomon and others will focus on or they might as well scrap printing.
That is quite a strong wording.
Kevin Kofler