[libreoffice-design] Re: Improving printing UX

On 09.07.2015 00:44, Jay Philips wrote:
> Hey Katarina and all,
>
> Not sure if this is 100% relevant, but was something i was thinking 
> about last week.
>
> I've been wondering why we dont rely on the OS's print dialog rather 
> than LO's internal one. It was something that came to mind as Heiko and 
> I discussed dialogs for the HIG and the general rule is that dialogs 
> should always utilize the OS's default dialogs, so that it LO integrates 
> better with a user's OS.

that would require the OS print dialog to have the features we need.

somebody investigated using the native GTK print dialog some years ago
but it was not possible to put all the options required to configure
spreadsheet printing onto it, so the idea was shelved.



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