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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    [Bug 59348] quick print button missing and other printing related
From:       Michael Goffioul <goffioul () imec ! be> (by way of Ferdinand  Gassauer
Date:       2003-08-13 9:14:01
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------- Additional Comments From goffioul@imec.be  2003-08-13 10:39 -------
Subject: Re:  quick print button missing

> The main "pro" should be, that a [power] user should be able to configure
> the system for his needs.
> Since I use PC's - since their early stage, I hardly remember to have
> printed accidentally, and only a few times to a wrong printer. Which I
> would propably have done also with the current KDE-Method, because after a
> while I do not "see" the printer name  any more. and sometimes the printer
> names  are hard to distinguish.

If you want, you can start this discussion on some KDE mailing
lists (probably on usability), but as I said, I (as a KDEPrint
developer) cannot do anything.

snip...

> Do you think it's a big effort to write/include the neccesary code for
> "print to default printer"   into all applications?

Not a big effort. As I said, KDEPrint already provides everything.
 From a code point of view, this mean replacing:

printer->setup(this)

with

printer->autoConfigure(QString::null, this)

But you then have also to modify the app's GUI (to add the button),
add a slot to handle the button click, and so on...

> Thanks, I found it, BUT now I have a "white/gray" area instead of the
> window because of the refresh problem.
> It seems to me to be a design flaw.
> How can this be solved generally?

The app have to process events while generating print data.
But on the other hand, this slows down the print data generation
process.

Michael.
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