#160: Printing

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

>> >> we pretty much had this in GTK (see attachment).
>> >> so i drew the conclusion that a separate dialog is needed for the
>> >> application specific settings.
>> >>
>> >> QPageSetupDialog seems to be the standard (native) page setup that most
>> >> OS
>> >> have?
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes, that.
>> >
>> > We can also disable the QPrintDialog and do our own dialog that setups
>> > the
>> > printer,
>> > I think this is what most ( not just Qt apps ) apps do on windows (
>> > adobe
>> > apps are
>> > way different than corel, that are way different than firefox, etc.
>> > everything is a bit different
>> > and nobody uses the default printer anyhow. )
>> >
>> > A Easy way is to 'hijack' the QPrinterDialog for unix, fork it, and made
>> > it
>> > default for every other system.
>> >
>>
>> i have no idea how to do that unfortunately, therefore i cannot help.
>> are you suggesting a custom QPrinterDialog with a second tab with the
>> Subsurface specific settings, similar to the one in GTK?
>> if so can you provide some (preferably detailed) guidelines how to achieve
>> it...
>> also by forking wouldn't that cause any troubles...?
>
>
> No troubles, we are already doing this for a KDE class that I infiltred into
> subsurface sources ( with dirk knowledge ), what I can do is to 'extract'
> the QPrinterDialog for unix code and create a new class that will show only
> this one, instead of the mac one on OSX and the microsoft one, on windows.
>
> You can continue doing what you are doing now and I can integrate it later,
> in a separate tab. :)
>

ok, understood.

lubomir
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