From kde-core-devel  Sat Sep 15 14:24:15 2007
From: Kuba Ober <kuba () mareimbrium ! org>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:24:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Future of KPrinter
Message-Id: <200709151024.15975.kuba () mareimbrium ! org>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118986629017706

On Sunday 09 September 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> >> Yes, but that's something that should be set up in the print
> >> configuration system.  It's not something the applications themselves
> >> should be doing.
> >
> >What about me, the user who notices the fuckup, and wants to
> >correct it??
>
> That's exactly the point: the user should be correcting it, not the
> application.
>
> Why should the application developer decide to use different margins if he
> doesn't even know what kind of printer will be used with his application?
>
> Setting the margins is a feature for the printing system, but not
> necessarily an API for the class.

This all sounds just so weird. Why do we need margin settings in a print 
dialog?!

That's something that belongs to page format/page properties or whatnot.

Kuba