[kde] [Bug 430641] A box that says "print" when right clicking an image file and if you click on it,it opens a gui where you can set how you wanna print the file

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430641

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |nate at kde.org
         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL
             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED

--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
You print the file by opening it in an app, and using the Print command from
that app. The reason for this is that the app knows how to lay out the document
properly. For example if you ask Gwenview to print a very small or very large
image, it will let you determine where on the paper to place it, whether or not
to scale it and how, etc. These aren't decisions that can really be made
automatically. Therefore offering a generic print feature would require that
the system know everything from every app regarding how to lay out and format
documents, which doesn't seem feasible.

In theory such a thing would be possible if all this intelligence was built
into the Qt print dialog, which we inherit. However it isn't, unfortunately. So
for the time being, I'm afraid you'll be stuck opening your documents in apps,
and printing from there. :)

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