GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 139849
Print should be on the page context menu in epiphany
Last modified: 2012-12-11 17:09:17 UTC
"Print" should probably be a menu item present on the right click page context menu in Epiphany. Currently, "Print" seems to not be present as an option when right-clicking on a page. Printing to get a hard copy of what's currently being rendered on screen is arguably one of the most fundamental features of a web browser, and while Epiphany's goal of keeping menus short and easy to navigate is a very good one, it can probably be effectively argued that Printing still belongs on the menu. As for an actual use case where this lack of a Print menu item caused problems, I'll describe the one of my mom, a case which I happened to observe today. She used an Internet banking application, and one of the detailed account pages opens by javascript in a smaller window without menus, toolbars and status bars. She wanted to get a hard copy as usual of the contents of the screen for her own notes, but this to her proved not possible since there was no Print option on the only available menu, the right click one. I knew about the Ctrl+P shortcut, but she naturally didn't. Still, I doubt she'll remember it, and I'm not sure it's fair to ask that she should.
Once we've decided if we _want_ this, it's easy to fix. However I'm not sure we need this, wouldn't it be better if we fixed bug 141999 instead? Then you could activate the menubar even when it's hidden, and choose print from the usual location.
You're suggesting that the mom-type users should learn to first use the hidden "F10" shortcut for bringing forward the toolbar, in order to be able to get a hard copy of a page? That solution would perhaps work for geeks and otherwise computer-savvy people, but certainly not for mom-type users. I'm amazed she even knew about right click, but talking about remembering hidden keyboard shortcuts is so much another galaxy for her occasional computer usage that it's almost amusing.
I guess it's matter of deciding which features are worth to expose in the document context menu. Possibilities: Print Send To Zoom In/Out Find Page Source Of these the only really necessary one (in the case of no menubar) seem to actually Print. For some reason I still feel Print in the menubar a bit odd. But I dont have a rational excuse for it ;) Maybe because no other app does it ... Another thing I'm unsure is about printing being a fundamental feature. I think it was decided to not have a toolbar button to not encourage people to print webpages and I sort of agree with that feeling. Though I guess that doesnt exclude the fact that some times is absolutely necessary for user to print a page and we should make possible to do it also for no menubar popups. CCing clarkbw to see if he has an opinion. This sounds like a good candidate for ui review ;)
-> Interface
Mass reassigning of Epiphany bugs to epiphany-maint@b.g.o
This isn't gnome-love but usability, it needs ui-review so it's not an easy fix. Bryan could you give a comment please?
-> 1.12 due to feature and UI freeze.
Mass changing target 2.16 -> 2.18
Moving to 2.20 target due to feature and UI freeze for 2.18.
Moving Severity:enhancement bugs off of 2.20 target.
Bryan: ping?
We are going to clean the context menus. This is not going in :P.