Re: Print dialog

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 22:54 +0000, Ed Catmur a écrit :
> On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 16:24 +0000, Xaero wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have noticed that all gtk applications have their own print dialog,
> > so that many (if not all) apps lack of some driver functionalities.
> > In example, firefox lets me choose only a few options (color-b/w and
> > the paper's dimensions)... 
> > For thease reasons, I have to install many cups printers with
> > different layouts.
> > Kde (and qt apps in general) and windows have a standard print dialog,
> > in which there are all printer's options...
> > What do you think about it? 
> 
> GTK+ has a print system, including standard dialogs:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-High-level-Printing-API.html
> It's fairly recent, so not all apps use it yet.  In particular, Firefox
> isn't a proper GTK+ application.

The print dialog in GTK+ has few options, not even margins, which makes
it not usable as such, imho.

Cheers,
Jean