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Printer Selection Ideas

Open Gerold55 opened this issue 6 years ago • 18 comments

Should we make the printers work like in real life? Or no? Should we have the option of deleting printers from the computer using a printer app?

Gerold55 avatar Mar 14 '18 00:03 Gerold55

Also, I think a scanner would be nice.

Gerold55 avatar Mar 14 '18 00:03 Gerold55

How would the scanner work? Place a book in it and it imports the text of the book into text editor?

Grizzly-Adam avatar Mar 14 '18 01:03 Grizzly-Adam

It would be able to scan pages people have sent. And you can copy books and papers.

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How would the scanner work? Place a book in it and it imports the text of the book into text editor?

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Gerold55 avatar Mar 14 '18 03:03 Gerold55

Scanners and copiers would be awesome, I think if this ends up on any large server then you would probably want the ability to keep printers local. Otherwise you look for printers and 50 show up, players are printing random things on other players printers to waste paper and ink, ETC.

apachano avatar Mar 14 '18 04:03 apachano

Should we make the printers work like in real life? Or no?

What do you mean?

Should we have the option of deleting printers from the computer using a printer app?

The printers are back on rescan. Then we need to store "known printers" in laptop (do we need it?)

Otherwise you look for printers and 50 show up, players are printing random things on other players printers to waste paper and ink, ETC.

At time no ownership is implemented in laptops. Maybe we need an "reserve/lock" button in laptops and in printer that allow the usage by the owner only

bell07 avatar Mar 14 '18 05:03 bell07

Just for reference, an disabled printer is not shown in scan. So players can poweroff printer after usage. This helps to save the environment too ;-)

bell07 avatar Mar 14 '18 06:03 bell07

That is fair on printers being turned off, although local network printers or usb printers would be cool. A lock screen that requires logging in would be a cool addition for computer security.

apachano avatar Mar 14 '18 06:03 apachano

For security we need something compatible to most area-security mods (using minetest.is_protected(pos, playername)) but it should be on other issue.

Wired printers maybe should be done using digilines. But I do not use digilines.

bell07 avatar Mar 14 '18 07:03 bell07

I have some experience, if we did that then it would be more of a network printer, usb style would be out of the question.

apachano avatar Mar 14 '18 07:03 apachano

usb style is in scope of #75

bell07 avatar Mar 14 '18 07:03 bell07

I think networking style would be as well, we are talking digilines.

apachano avatar Mar 14 '18 08:03 apachano

What do you mean by "pages people sent"?

Grizzly-Adam avatar Mar 14 '18 17:03 Grizzly-Adam

Physical pages sent through the mail/given to other players. On Mar 14, 2018 1:33 PM, "Grizzly Adam" [email protected] wrote:

What do you mean by "pages people sent"?

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Gerold55 avatar Mar 14 '18 17:03 Gerold55

Hand delivered would work. From an rpg standpoint you could also "find" pages in dungeons that you may want to digitize.

apachano avatar Mar 14 '18 20:03 apachano

@Grizzly-Adam have you started working on some better eye-candy for the printer?

Gerold55 avatar Mar 15 '18 23:03 Gerold55

I have not. Been busy with the monochrome stuff and some updates to my BBQ mod at request of users.

Grizzly-Adam avatar Mar 15 '18 23:03 Grizzly-Adam

Oh ok

Gerold55 avatar Mar 15 '18 23:03 Gerold55

When I finish with the monochroming, I will look at the printers. After that I am probably going to take a break from this mod to work on another original "Your Dad's" mod. I am deciding between doing the backyard movie night, garage, or booze & smokes mod next.

Grizzly-Adam avatar Mar 16 '18 00:03 Grizzly-Adam