You don’t actually print files, you send them to be printed.

This would appear to be an implementation detail. Using the print dialogue to fax things would also appear to be a limitation of the implementation.

– Chris

Gnome libraries are going away for the most part. They don’t present a stable ISV story. Gtk+ does and everything that makes sense to move to Gtk+ is being moved. The print dialog is one of them. One of the goals of the new API is to be able to integrate into OO.org, firefox and the like. The API is also being designed as cross platform so on Windows you will see a window print dialog and on mac you will see an OS X print dialog.

But I believe something like tbf’s mockup is necessary for odd/even page printing.

Haven’t thought of checkboxes for it before, but now that I think of it, its clean and simple.

Well, but yes: Really important stuff you are working on.

Yep, a HIG review would happen later down the line. Also once I land it in CVS hopefully people will start to send patches.

The workaround in fedora is to remove and readd the button module in our scripts but there is a fix going into the kernel but it apparently won’t land upstream until at least 2.6.17. Apparently the real fix is hard.

The text labels should be “Right Aligned” if this print dialog is to follow the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines. (Sure you could claim this was an exception but there are massive exceptions so big you could drive a truck through them.)

Not for the default view. Perhaps there should be a way to define this but it makes it confusing for the common case.

Chris,

You don’t actually print files, you send them to be printed. In some cases you might send it to a file, e-mail or fax.