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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Porting your apps from KPrinter to QPrinter
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-10-22 10:27:13
Message-ID: 200710221227.14145.gassauer () kde ! org
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Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 schrieb John Layt

thanks for pointing this out.

the problem seems to be that the KDE Icon is called 
filequickprint.svgz but the attached action is file-preview.
And this should be easy to correct.

I'll do my best trying to contact the FreeDesktop  people.

I really think it is important to get 2 different icons, as long OO is 
installed along with KDE - the user IMHO must get the same action clicking 
identical icons.

And many users with only ONE printer will really enjoy print-quick - what else 
should they do?


> On Saturday 13 October 2007, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > It would be great if the issued
> > "filequickprint" versus "PrintPreview"
> > mentioned in
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149617
> > and especially
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149617#c10
> > could be solved for KDE4
>
> The new FreeDesktop icon naming standard which KDE4 implements defines two
> standard icon names for document-print and document-print-preview, which
> are used by the KDE standard actions.  There is no icon name defined for
> quick print, and there is no standard definition of their visual
> appearance.  The appearance of these icons is entirely at the discretion of
> the artists and I will leave that to them, but I do agree that the
> lightning flash implies quick print to me as this is how it is sometimes
> used on other platforms.
>
> The app programmers have the choice of implementing the print standard
> action as either a quick print or to display the print dialog.  I think
> traditional KDE preference is to display the dialog as quick print may not
> be the user expectation when clicking the 'normal' icon and is the least
> 'destructive' path.  This is probably something we need to define in the
> HIG.  Personally, I hate when there's only a quick print icon such as in
> OOo and Word, I almost always want to play with the print settings.
>
> If you're wanting to take this further, then I'd suggest you start with the
> icon naming standard mailing list at
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-naming-spec.  If
> document-print was defined as 'Print with displaying the print dialog' and
> document-print-quick was defined as 'Print without displaying the print
> dialog' then we would have a clear cross-platform guideline on which meant
> what that we could implement.  I'd suggest you back your proposal up with
> some hard research into how the gnome default theme, OOo, Firefox, Windows
> and OSX all treat the issue (totally inconsistent I'm betting).
>
> John.
>
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