On Wednesday 14 November 2007 05:31:46 am Johannes Meixner wrote:
I think that wording like "printers/queues" or "printers (print queues)" or "configured printers (print queues)" could hopefully match to the existing "printer in the printing system" mental model of the user and at the same time it should hopefully make the user aware that it is queues and furthermore it would better match to the mental model of an experienced user.
I agree with idea to explain what is printing queue and use that term without mixing printer/printing queue/queue. There is more queues than printing, so queue alone will make confusion. I'm not far from inexperienced user when comes to printing, so for me it would be easy to understand that printing queue is software black box that takes my text do whatever is necessary to give appropriate printout and sends to printer. It is also easy to swallow that each computer has one such black box and also that such boxes can be reached over the network, so I can send text to any of them and they will find a way to printer. I agree that the worst thing is to mix expressions, use them interchangeably like they are synonyms. Martin: The terminology used in Windows can't be used here, as they make presumption that only one physical printer is attached to computer. So when I see printing queue on the network there is exactly one printer behind that queue. CUPS servers can run on every computer advertising single physical computer that can be attached to any of them or hanging somewhere it the network. This must be made clear to any user, new and old. The other option to limit explanation and printing system setup to Windows compatible mode is cutting the wings to openSUSE. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org