On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:51, Henri wrote: > The two MAIN problems under gnome are certainly file management > and...PRINTING !!!! Abiword has it's own printbox, so does galeon, so > does gnumeric, so does ggv...can someone do something pretty about that > ! You can't tell a new user to open an xterm and type "lpr"...and what > if you want to print landscape ? Please read "man lpr". That's not serious. > That's a shame because there are really very good things in gnome panel > (i love the "two menus" concept) , desktop (icons resizing) , > control-center (really easier than kcontrol) and nautilus (image zoom > with the mouse..) for ex. > We need those two very important dialog boxes : printing and file selection.
Hmm, interesting point. Let me check... Current development abiword and galeon have v. different print boxes to the older versions, but you're right, they're still not the same =). Galeon's is better, and has a landscape printing option (development abiword's doesn't, but then, for me printing doesn't work at all, so I guess that's still "in progress" :P). I don't have gnumeric. Current ggv doesn't appear to have a print dialog at all, the print document menu option just prints it. Which is a pain, I didn't want my test document printed...oh well :). Resizable icons - that's because GNOME has spiffy SVG support, hehe. I guess the KDE guys are gonna include this too, though. I think printing is supposed to be dealt with via the gnome-print package...current development abiword doesn't do GNOME integration, so maybe when they start working on that, printing will go through gnome-print and be standardised. I'm not sure where Galeon's print dialog comes from. But that's a good point, it would be a decent improvement...guess I'll have a chat with some GNOME people and see what's happening with it. -- adamw
