Re: [libreoffice-design] Improving printing UX

Hi *

> 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.

I didn't expect this kind of answer tbh :o) 

I was more looking for ideas how to improve status quo. Anyway -- I looked 
more closely at how print dialog in my (K)DE looks like and it's kinda slim, 
minimalistic, yet very usable. But then again, I'm a home user. 

I can imagine that a company printing several hundred pages of business 
correspondence per day or, dunno, a school printing their own brochures would 
be very unhappy about feature loss if LibO switched to platform default 
dialogs. 

> In LO 3.4ish, we moved from using LO's internal file management dialogs
> to the OS's, so why didnt we do the same with the print dialog?

The above is most likely answer to this "why?"

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