** Changed in: qt
Status: Unknown => Won't Fix
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Title:
QPrinterDialog ignores default settings from CUPS
Status in Qt:
Won't Fix
Status in qt4-x11 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
KDE as well as many QT-Applications use QPrinterDialog as their
printing dialog. Thing is: This dialog ignores default settings
defined in CUPS - it doesn't even remember that last settings that
were chosen. I know this is a QT issue but I kindly ask you not to
close this bug as upstream and here's why:
1. This bug has been around for years now - the first report to Nokia about
was back in 2008 if I recall correctly.
2. A user doesn't know and doesn't care about whose fault it is. He just
knows, that he set his printer settings to default to duplex in CUPS and that
his QT applications don't print duplex. At first he might shrug and set duplex
in the dialog. Next time the setting is back to simplex. The same is true for
other options like collate and color settings. It's just a huge usability
issue.
3. The fix below has been adopted by other major distributions for quite some
time now. It works for duplex, collate and color settings.
4. It saves lots and lots of trees!
I think it does not work for paper size and in general it doesn't fix
the problem that QT can't remember the settings you choose in the
print dialog. The paper size may be read from the configured defaults
easily, too, but settings saving may be a bit harder. However, you'd
implement this fix, you'd do something VERY good for Ubuntu -
especially since 12.04 is meant to be an LTS release! If you could
even improve the fix that would be huge!
Here's the fix from the KDE bug tracker:
https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=41187
More info:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051
https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com//browse/QTBUG-6471 (and
https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-23037) and other bug reports from
the comments there.
For Oneiric I've made a patched version in a PPA of mine that you
could look at. You'll see it's really a minor modification that
doesn't take any effort at all to implement. You can find it here:
https://launchpad.net/~dhertel/+archive/myfixes
As a side note: I know that KDE is not the default environment in
Ubuntu, but it's getting more important for people since Gnome2
officially is no more and Unity isn't exactly better when one doesn't
even like Gnome3 to begin with.
So I hope this makes it into Precise...
Cheers,
Dominik
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