On Wednesday 23 February 2011 19:44:49 John Layt wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 13:33:57 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:20:43 Thomas Zander wrote: > > > While Qt could re-add the functionality that mirrors the Qt3 checkbox > > > indeed, in the mean time there is something already available that KDE > > > can use right now. In my personal opinion that dialog is more powerful > > > too. > > > > > > Qt provides a 'print preview dialog' that substitutes this behavior and > > > all that is needed to give this functionality to users is for KDe > > > applications to add a menu option called 'print preview'. > > > http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2007/09/19/print-preview/ > > > > > > See your local compiled qt/demos/textedit for a demo. > > > > > > AFAICT all it takes is one hero to go through the kde apps and add the > > > ~10 lines of code... > > > > This could be done with volunteers as we did for plasma applets configure > > dialogs where some code had to be added in all C++ applets. 3 guys did it > > and 2 got git access (one already had it), that got them started in > > contributing in a mentored way. > > All it takes is a list of apps on a wiki page, an example code, a mentor > > and a blog. > > What list should we discuss this in order to see if it's the right > > approach and to put it together if it is? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Anne-Marie > > Note that we also have KPrintPreview which has been available and > documented since 4.0 (and even bugs raised) but few apps have bothered to > add the required menu item and preview code. QPrintPreview has some nicer > features around manipulating the preview, but just like KPrintPreview the > appearance in the preview may have little relationship to the final print > appearance.
I must have misunderstood this statement - surely there is little point in a print preview if it has little relationship to the final pring appearance? > Another problem with QPrintPreview is that clicking on the > Print button in it brings up the pure Qt print dialog which doesn't have > all extra features we've added like n-up, odd/even pages and app specific > tabs. > I have noticed that I don't always see the same print dialogue, but I haven't worked out which applications show which, or why. That's another point of confusion for users. > I guess any discussion would be on kde-devel as fixing apps is not really > core and reaches a wider audience. > I've cc'd the kde-devel list and hope that the discussion will be taken up there. The other point I raised, of "printing as a booklet", is perhaps neither as urgently needed or as widely needed, but it is something dear to my heart. I just wish I had the know-how to help bring this back. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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