On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:51, Henri wrote:
The two MAIN problems under gnome are certainly file management and...PRINTING !!!! Abiword has it's own printbox, so does galeon, so does gnumeric, so does ggv...can someone do something pretty about that ! You can't tell a new user to open an xterm and type "lpr"...and what if you want to print landscape ? Please read "man lpr". That's not serious.
That's a shame because there are really very good things in gnome panel (i love the "two menus" concept) , desktop (icons resizing) , control-center (really easier than kcontrol) and nautilus (image zoom with the mouse..) for ex.
We need those two very important dialog boxes : printing and file selection.
Hmm, interesting point. Let me check...
Current development abiword and galeon have v. different print boxes to the older versions, but you're right, they're still not the same =). Galeon's is better, and has a landscape printing option (development abiword's doesn't, but then, for me printing doesn't work at all, so I guess that's still "in progress" :P). I don't have gnumeric. Current ggv doesn't appear to have a print dialog at all, the print document menu option just prints it. Which is a pain, I didn't want my test document printed...oh well :).
Don't those apps' printing dialogs let you specify the print command though (lpr by default)? If you change it to kprinter, you would get a nice consistent CUPS-integrated print dialog for all your Gtk+/Gnome apps.
Resizable icons - that's because GNOME has spiffy SVG support, hehe. I guess the KDE guys are gonna include this too, though.
In KDE 3.2, yes.
