Defaults for the KDE 4.4 printer dialog

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi Tassilo,

I just recently read a blog post of someone who is working on this:

http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/swimming_upstream

Patrick.

On 2010-03-29 15:21, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> is it possible to set default values for the KDE 4.4.1 printer dialog?
> 
> Here at work, I always use the same printer.  Unfortunately, by default
> the first printer in the list of ~100 printers sorted by name in
> selected.  So when I want to print something, I always have to choose
> "my" printer first, and additionally I need to enable duplex printing
> each and every time.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that in KDE 3 I was able to save my settings as default.
> 
> And another usability regression compared to KDE 3 is that I cannot
> specify multiple page ranges.
> 
> KDE 3:
> 
>   1. Print... (using my defaults)
>   2. Range: "44-63,75-81,90-100"
>   3. Print
> 
> KDE 4:
> 
>   for r in "44-63" "75-81" "90-100"; do
>     1. Print...
>     2. Select my printer
>     3. Options > enable duplex printing
>     4. Set page range r
>     5. Print
>   done
> 
> Concerning the latter problem, there's a wishlist item in the bugtracker
> (#212244).

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