Review Request: Move creation of print dialog to KoView

[C. Boemann]

> On June 12, 2012, 10:14 a.m., C. Boemann wrote:
> > Uhm how does this play in to the KoPrintDialog.
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> > I'm not trying to prevent your usecase, but on the other hand I don't think we should make our API even more complicated, than it unfortunately already is. so I just want to be sure we have though this through.
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> Dag Andersen wrote:
>     The exact problem I have now (sheets too) is that number of pages can change dependent on settings in the print dialog like orientation, paper size etc which triggers the need to update this in the dialog.
>     The basic problem here is that the print system is designed for wysiwyg apps and does not cater well for the rest of us.
>     I could not find an less intrusive solution but I am open to suggestions.

yes I understand your problem, and we should solve it. I just wonder if we could maybe change what we have. Building more broken api on top of an already broken api seems like the wrong way forward. I'm just asking here. It may be you solution is the best, but it doesn't seem like a clear decision to me


- C.


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On June 12, 2012, 8:35 a.m., Dag Andersen wrote:
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> (Updated June 12, 2012, 8:35 a.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra.
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> Description
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> View centric apps (plan, sheets) need better control of the print dialog than what is possible today.
> This patch moves the creation of QPrintDialog into a virtual method in KoView to enable apps to access it or create their own dialog.
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> Diffs
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>   libs/main/KoMainWindow.cpp 6720a95 
>   libs/main/KoView.h ba46c02 
>   libs/main/KoView.cpp af3aba8 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105225/diff/
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> Testing
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> Printing still works with words
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> Thanks,
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> Dag Andersen
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