On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:14:09PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2010 11:57:41 Till Maas wrote: > > > > The problem is not to store the systems default, but to save the options > > while okular is open. > > > I think you'll find that with the Qt printing system the intention is that you > set default in printer configuration. Settings in applications are intended > to be for one-off changes, therefore not stored. Once you realise this it > works very well. For instance, I have duplex set as default, but occasionally > I want single sided. Duplex is in my configuration. Single-sided would be > chosen for the print job. Next time I print it would default to Duplex. This workflow fails if I want to print a series of documents with several non-default options or evaluate which options to use by first only printing part of the document. E.g. if I want to test whether I can still read the document, if I print four pages per sheet and whether or not grayscale is enough (or which color option to use) and everything should be duplexed at the short-edge instead of the default long-edge. Now add that the printer is not next to my desktop but a two minute walk away. For this the easiest way seems to be not to use okular, but directly print using lpr, but then if I want to take a look at the documents first, it becomes annoying, too. Btw. I believe that KDE3 also used the systems defaults, but it allowed to override it for the time running the application and to forget the settings after the printing dialog was closed. It covered pretty much I needed to do with several documents and I remember a colleague who enjoyed this, too. Regards Till -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100227/99b3c6bc/attachment.bin
