[kde-linux] KDE 4.2 ROCKS !

[James Richard Tyrer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009 08:34:08 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Friday 13 February 2009 19:33:58 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>> Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>>>> Hi all;
>>>>>
>>>>> Just had to throw out my thoughts - KDE 4.2 is awesome !! Hats
>>>>> off to the KDE dev team and everyone who made 4.2 a reality.
>>>> Have you tried to print?
>>> Every day.
>> Does the print dialog have the correct defaults in "Properties"?
> 
> Yes

OK, this may work for a printer if you have CUPS installed, but the 
physical printer defaults aren't the correct default for printing to a PDF.
> 
>> Specifically, does it honor the system defaults for Paper Size and
>> dimension units?  
> 
> Yes

First, do you use A4 and Metric?

Three bugs have been filed on the paper size issue.  Please try it and 
see if it works.  Change the "Paper format" in:

System Settings -> Region & Language : Country Region & Language : Other

and see if it is changed for printing to a PDF.
> 
>> If you change these, or the margins, are they
>> remembered 
> 
> Yes

Doesn't work on my system.
> 
>> or is there a way to save them?  
> 
> Yes
> 
Where is that Save button in the Print dialog?  It is there in KDE-3.5.x 
but I don't see it in KDE-4.2.

>> Are the margins inactivated
>> when they have no effect?
>>
> What circumstances?
> 
Printing PDF in Okular would be the first example that comes to mind.

>>>> Have you tried to remove the battery monitor from the panel?
>>> Why would I?
>> Well, you might not have a laptop.  But, if things are configurable,
>> they should work, or at least not cause a crash.
>>
> I work mainly on laptops.
> 
If I remove it, Plasma crashes.  Have you tried it?

-- 
JRT