The problem with using the OS print dialog is that some print may lack options that LO needs. I would stick with a LO print dialog. I even consider the current dialog more intuitive than MSO 07 dialog.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Katarina Behrens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi * > > > I've been wondering why we dont rely on the OS's print dialog rather > > than LO's internal one. It was something that came to mind as Heiko and > > I discussed dialogs for the HIG and the general rule is that dialogs > > should always utilize the OS's default dialogs, so that it LO integrates > > better with a user's OS. > > I didn't expect this kind of answer tbh :o) > > I was more looking for ideas how to improve status quo. Anyway -- I looked > more closely at how print dialog in my (K)DE looks like and it's kinda > slim, > minimalistic, yet very usable. But then again, I'm a home user. > > I can imagine that a company printing several hundred pages of business > correspondence per day or, dunno, a school printing their own brochures > would > be very unhappy about feature loss if LibO switched to platform default > dialogs. > > > In LO 3.4ish, we moved from using LO's internal file management dialogs > > to the OS's, so why didnt we do the same with the print dialog? > > The above is most likely answer to this "why?" > > -- > > Katarina Behrens > > Softwareentwicklerin LibreOffice > ––– > CIB software GmbH > Geschäftsstelle Hamburg > Flachsland 10 > 22083 Hamburg > ––– > T +49 (40) / 28 48 42 -235 > F +49 (40) / 28 48 42 -100 > > [email protected] > www.cib.de > ––– > Sitz: München > Registergericht München, HRB 123286 > Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Brandner > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
