QPrintDialog

[John Layt]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Craig Drummond wrote:
> 1. In apps such as KWrite the print dialog just has the executable name as
> its title (e.g. "kwrite").  The attached "kdeprintdialog.cpp.diff" fixes
> this by setting the dialog's caption to be "Print - <AppName>". However,
> this introduces a new string "Print" - is this OK?

Message freeze came in on 20 May, so you would need to clear it with the 
translation team.  Otherwise the patch looks fine, +1 from me.  I wonder if 
adding the document name from QPrinter::docName() would be useful, or an 
alternative?  There's no guarantee it would be set by the app at that stage, 
but it's worth a crack.  So it would look something like "Print - <DocName> - 
<AppName>".

> 2. The "OK/Cancel" buttons do not have icons, even if this option is
> enabled within the control panel. KStyle could control this via
> the "SH_DialogButtonBox_ButtonsHaveIcons" style hint option. But can KStyle
> use KConfig? Or should this setting also be written via QSettings?

Beyond me :-)

> 3. When printing to file, the QFileDialog is used to select the location. I
> noticed in qfiledialog.cpp the "_qt_filedialog_save_filename_hook" (etc.)
> variables, but these are marked as "Internal" (but are still exported). The
> attached kfiledialog.cpp.diff uses these "Internal" variables to override
> the Qt file dialog's with KDE ones. Are these safe to use? I assume not,
> unfortunately, but they are one way to solve the print dialog's file
> selector problem.

I'll leave this to Thomas, he did point me in this direction a while back, but 
it was well beyond my C++ abilities.  I think he was going to talk to David 
about trying to get all Qt apps running under KDE to use KFileDialog.

Thanks Craig!

John.

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