automated printing in KDE

[George Staikos]

On Monday 03 February 2003 10:05, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> George Staikos wrote:
> > On Monday 03 February 2003 05:55, David Faure wrote:
> >>In KOffice we added a DCOP call "print( bool quick )",
> >>where quick=true means "use default printer, don't show dialog box".
> >>
> >>What about we do the same in khtml's DCOP interface?
> >>Please test the attached patch.
> >
> >   Great!  It's good to see this propagating.  :-)
> >
> >   Other developers:  Please add this to your apps too!!  You can also
> > make a konqueror/kfm "quickprint" menu entry.  Have a look at
> > koffice/tools/quickprint for example .desktop files.
>
> Good.
>
> This is something which I had suggested already more than a year
> ago. It was rejected at the time on the argument that "Microsoft
> does it, and does it not well".
>
> True -- Microsoft does it badly, f.e. in "Word". There the "quickprint"
> button/menu entry is not distinguishable from the "normal" printing
> (where you get the dialog, can select printer, etc.)
>
> Please make sure that the two print options *do* distinguish
> in their names and in their icons -- and all is well!

  I think you misunderstand.  This adds a menu entry to the context menu in 
kfm/konqueror so that you can print files without having to launch the 
application which views them.  It makes it quick to print files while 
browsing directories, by launching the print dialog and asking the app to 
silently print it (without showing a mainwindow).

  Quickprint within an application could certainly be confusing.

-- 

George Staikos