Tomasz Janowitz wrote:
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Subject:
Re: [Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME
(Summit mockups)
From:
"Piotr R. Sidorowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:15:46 -0500
To:
Tomasz Janowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Tomasz Janowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello,
All are excellent points. What I would like to see is a sensible paper
size selection, based on timezone settings perhaps. It is a safe bet
that for US and Canada the default setting should be Letter, for Europe
likely A4, etc. Yet any time I configure a printer the default is always A4.
FWIW, CUPS uses two strategies for choosing the default media size:
1. If libpaper is available, use the size it reports.
2. Otherwise, if the local is en, en_US, en_CA, or fr_CA, then
use US Letter aka "na-letter" using the PWG's standard media
naming conventions.
3. If #1 and #2 don't pan out, use A4.
All of this can be implemented in a few dozen lines of code, so I'd
recommend just exposing a function for this in the GNOME print API.
....
Most Windows apps will use the current page size of the default
printer. I'm not particularly fond of this approach, but it is
a valid option as well...
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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software http://www.easysw.com
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