KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Joseph Wenninger]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 21:39, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2007 schrieb Alex Merry:
> > The only
> > thing we'd lose in the long run from not having our own KPrinter class
> > should be arbitrary page selection from with the printing dialog (it's
> > still possible from within the application - such as checkboxes on a
> > page thumbnail view: there's a "selection" option in the print dialog).  
>
> I think the current direction is right. But this paragraph scares me. It
> effectively means that virtually no application will support page ranges
> any more. For page-oriented applications (kword, okular, kghostview) it
> means those have to provide a different interface that has yet to be
> discovered by the user. The kghostview interface is suitable for picking
> single pages, but the interface is awkward if you wanted to select, e. g.,
> 1-50, 100-250, 270-310, 350-375, 425-505.
>
> One certainly could issue separate print jobs for each range, but then they
> have to perform state tracking. Therefore, I ask to keep in mind not to
> fully exclude the possibility of enabling range selection in a later
> release when designing the interface.
>
> mfg
> 	Leo

In my honest opinion multiple print range selection belongs into a print 
dialog. It's a quite usefull feature and I'm often using it. (ok a weak 
reason,  but Microsoft office and Openoffice.org has it too)

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

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