Re: [gedit-list] First pass hack of gedit and gtksourceview port to gtkprintoperation

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/1/06, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> Paolo Maggi wrote:
> > P.S. While I am at it, I'd like to point out the current print API does
> > not allow to add custom print ranges to the print dialog. In gedit, for
> > example, we allow users to print from "line X to line Y".
> >
> >
> Yes, I didn't want to raise this issue in the first mail, because I
> thought that async pagination was a more important issue and I didn't
> want to mix the discussion, but since you mention it... When I asked on
> irc about print from line to line the reaction was along the line of "Oh
> well, who uses that anyway". This may or may not be true[1], but IMHO it
> has been taken a bit lightly: this issue is not specific to gedit, but
> it's pretty general to all the apps that are not WYSIWYG, where you may
> want to print a known range without first going through the pagination
> and print preview process.
>
> Another similar example is a spreadsheet: I checked MS Excel and it
> allows to print a custom selection of sheets.
>
>
> Along the same lines and even more common is the necessity to print the
> current selection (which technically is pretty similar to 'print from
> line to line' since it's just another custom range).

While I have a hard time seeing print from line to line as a very useful feature
(do you expect me to count the lines before I open the print dialog ?),  I can
easily see "current selection" as a useful value for the range selector. And
it should be easy to add.

Matthias