https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54908
tmacalp <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #9 from tmacalp <[email protected]> --- I'm not sure if you can really lump bug 61629 in with this bug, as this bug doesn't address "Print Directly" at all unless it ALSO defines the change in behavior specifically for "Print Directly." I see the following options for "Print Directly": 1. When multiple cells are selected, immediately print the selection without asking any questions. If only one cell is selected, immediately print the entire document. "Print Directly" shouldn't bother you with dialogs. It should just dump the selection or sheet to the printer. 2. When multiple cells are selected, ignore them and immediately print the entire sheet. This is the current crippled behavior. "Print Directly" is unable to print a selection as it could before LibreOffice. 3. When multiple cells are selected, "Print Directly" opens the standard Print dialog with "Print selected cells" selected. This is a reasonable compromise, as it still presents the same number of clicks as OpenOffice did. Print Directly would still immediately print the entire sheet when only one cell is selected. 4. Re-implement the simple dialog removed from "Print Directly" to give users the simple choice to print sheet, selected cells, or cancel. I would guess that LO inadvertently removed functionality from "Print Directly" when they attempted to tidy-up the interface. I loaded version 3.3.0 in a virtual machine and it appears that this change was made some time after OpenOffice 3.2.1 and before LibreOffice 3.3.0. My main complaint with having the "Print Directly" related bugs part of this bug is that this one is really just an enhancement request for a different behavior in the standard Print dialog. I'm also not sure that this proposed behavior change for the standard print dialog is ideal. This seems like quite a substantial UI change. You're saying that if any user leaves 2 or more cells selected, the standard Print dialog should default to "print selected cells"? I'm not saying this change is unreasonable, but how many users will accidentally leave cells selected and still expect to print the entire spreadsheet? At least they will have a preview window and the option to change it. To hopefully make things more clear, here are the various situations: 1. OpenOffice previous behavior (functional) * Print Directly, with one cell selected: Prints entire sheet without asking any questions. * Print Directly, with multiple cells selected: Pops up a dialog to print selection, print sheet, or cancel. * File->Print when you have multiple cells selected: Opens print dialog with "print selected sheets" as the default. 2. LibreOffice current behavior (broken Print Directly) * Print Directly, with one cell selected: Prints entire sheet without asking any questions. * Print Directly, when you have multiple cells selected: Prints entire sheet without asking any questions about selection. * File->Print when you have multiple cells selected: Opens print dialog with "print selected sheets" as the default. 3. Proposed behavior in this bug report * Print Directly, with one cell selected: Prints entire sheet without asking any questions. * Print Directly, when you have multiple cells selected: Not addressed so far in this report, and will continue to print entire sheet without asking any questions about selection. * File->Print when you have multiple cells selected: The change suggested in this report. Opens print dialog with "print selected cells" as the default. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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