Re: [libreoffice-design] Improving printing UX

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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