Future of KPrinter

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kuba Ober 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?!

Because there's no other way to set it for some apps? (Kate, Konqueror,
files loaded into kprinter started from commandline,...)

If you're truely interested in getting more specific answers, please
go back in this and 2-3 related threads in the last 3 weeks, and read
up.

> That's something that belongs to page format/page properties or whatnot.

Yes, for those apps that create their documents already in a page-oriented
way. But some doc types aren't page-oriented (text, html)...


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