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The problem with using the OS print dialog is that some print may lack
options that LO needs.
I would stick with a LO print dialog. I even consider the current dialog
more intuitive than MSO 07 dialog.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Katarina Behrens <Katarina.Behrens@cib.de>
wrote:

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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