On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:09 +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote: > We've supported a gtk print dialog integration in OOo for a while, but > there has always been a few little gotchas, and now that the "built-in" > OOo dialog has some nifty extras there are extra gotchas. So I'll be > reverting to the "built-in" dialog for F11, a quick dump of the gotchas > are.. Hey Caolan, I don't know if you have been following this, but Marek has been chipping away on your complaints. I wonder if it would make sense for you to evaluate the state of gtk printing for OOo with GTK+ 2.17.4, and give us some feedback on what further improvements you think are needed to make OOo use GtkPrint again in F12. > *) Need an extra "Selection" option for printing. > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344519 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563619 > > OOo can print just the selected text, selected graphic or selected > cells, but no way to show that in the gtk print dialog. This is improved, at least. It is now possible to print the 'selection'. > *) Way to specify the page size and orientation (esp. when using n-up > printing) > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551409 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551726 > > Most OpenOffice.org applications have per-page orientations rather than > global per print-job orientation, but when printing multiple pages in > one sheet of paper through cups, its desirable to have a way to specify > the orientation and page size of the combined sheet. We could do this > with a custom tab, but see next entry Orientation and other page setup controls can now be embedded in the print dialog, but maybe you were after something else here ? > *) Emit a signal when a printer is selected. > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564854 > > So e.g. a custom tab that should only exist for say, printing to a cups > backend, or using save as .pdf file can be shown/hidden depending on the > printer selection, e.g. pdf encryption options or pdf "read-only except > for filling in fields" directives which only make sense in a save > as .pdf context. Hackable around with nasty switch-page callback on the > notebook widget if you rummage around horrifically through the dialog > hierarchy looking for it. Fixed, notify::selected-printer should work for what you want here. Matthias -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
