Future of KPrinter

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 9/15/07, Kuba Ober <kuba at mareimbrium.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 09 September 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > >> Yes, but that's something that should be set up in the print
> > >> configuration system. It's not something the applications themselves
> > >> should be doing.
> > >
> > >What about me, the user who notices the fuckup, and wants to
> > >correct it??
> >
> > That's exactly the point: the user should be correcting it, not the
> > application.
> >
> > Why should the application developer decide to use different margins if he
> > doesn't even know what kind of printer will be used with his application?
> >
> > Setting the margins is a feature for the printing system, but not
> > necessarily an API for the class.
>
> This all sounds just so weird. Why do we need margin settings in a print
> dialog?!
>
> That's something that belongs to page format/page properties or whatnot.

Every platform allows you to change the margins from the print dialog.
And not all apps have a page format/properties - take webpages,
emails, pictures... You could add such a dialog to each of these apps,
but isn't it far more efficient to not do that, but have it in the
printing dialog?

> Kuba
>