Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 01:00 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
Evince requires that you set the paper size in the "Print Setup" dialog.
This dialog defaults everything to A4 paper. As I'm in the US, I use US
Letter.
Switching these settings does work for any print jobs I initiate while
evince is up, but the settings aren't persistent across restarts of
evince. They need to be.
Evince, by way of the GTK+ printing backends, should use the default
letter size set by your locale;
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450487
Hmm...well, my locale is "POSIX". In other words, I don't set one. The
reason I don't set one is that terminal programs such as xterm aren't
aware of UTF-8 and don't properly render certain punctuation characters
when the locale is set to en_US.UTF-8.
As for changing this default, I'm not sure if this should be done per
application or with a desktop wide setting for GTK.
I'm not really as concerned about the default, so much as I am the fact
that Evince doesn't remember any changes you make in the dialog, and
this is inconsistent with Epiphany (which also uses gtkprint).
Epiphany (the browser) remembers your settings properly, and this is how
Evince should behave as well (but see below). I'm of the opinion that
the settings in question should be remembered for all GTK applications,
such that the changes in one application will be reflected at startup of
the other application, since the settings in question are designed to
cause the print output to conform to the paper in the printer.
That said, I'm also of the opinion that the way GTK printing currently
works is broken. There should be three layers of printer settings:
1. The printer itself (e.g., CUPS or whatever).
2. The user's global preferences, both for all printers and on a
per-printer basis, as set from a control panel applet the way all such
per-user preferences are set.
3. The application's settings.
And these should all be handled the same way. Right now printing in
Gnome is an absolute mess. Each application seems to have a slightly
different way of handling it. I've looked at gedit, gnumeric, epiphany,
evince, dia, galeon, and gnome-dictionary, and they all handle printing
slightly differently.
What's currently in the print settings dialog really belongs in a tab in
the print dialog, because it's something that has a reasonable chance of
being changed by the user on a per-job basis. I'm inclined to say that
the paper settings should be remembered across invocations of the
program because the user may have a specific preference for them with
respect to that application (a "save" button on that tab would make this
behaviour, if implemented, obvious, and a "revert to defaults" button
would make it possible to restore the behaviour to a more traditional
behaviour).
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