GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 302870
Print keyboard shortcut
Last modified: 2008-02-19 15:23:30 UTC
Please make Ctrl+P a shortcut for Print, it's a standard in most applications (most notably mozilla/firefox, OOo, etc).
Ctrl-P is already taken by the Palettes dialog and I don't think we want to change this keybinding.
Yeah, I admit changing existing shortcuts is somehow problematic, but having all-apps-but-gimp using different scheme is IMHO much worse.
With the introduction of the Dock in Gimp 2.0 I do not think there is as much need for keybindings to help manage window and bring things to the front. As you probably already know Gnome applications use Ctrl+P for Print (adding the HIG keyword to this report). Link to the relevant section of the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html#standard-shortcuts It might help minimise disruption this and any other keybinding changes were done at the same time as the planned menu reorganisation (gimp 3.0?).
Print is a plug-in. It is not necessarily available on all GIMP installations and we currently don't have a way to specify default shortcuts for plug-ins. So this is either WONTFIX or very low priority.
Well, from the user's perspective it's IMHO a major usability flaw.
If we can improve GIMP's usability so much that a keyboard shortcut can be considered a major usability flaw, that would make me very happy.
Oh, it's just one of the flaws ;-) Anyways, it's quite confusing. Even no shortcut would be better then having it different IMHO.
If you were to have a permanent Print menu it (but greyed out if unavailable) might that approach make it any easier to implement this?
No, that would make it more difficult. Alan, can you please leave this up to us? You are not qualified to make suggestions about the implementation. The problem has been reported, it is acknowledged and it will be taken care of.
2006-07-07 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> Use Ctrl-P as the default keyboard shortcut for Print (bug #302870): * app/actions/dialogs-actions.c: removed Ctrl-P shortcut from Palettes dialog. * etc/Makefile.am * etc/menurc: added a default menurc file that binds Ctrl-P to file-print-gtk. * app/core/gimp-user-install.c: install the default menurc.
Sorry for digging out this old bug, but I guessed it would be better than submitting a new one. If I understand comment 10 correctly, there should be a default shortcut Ctrl+P now. This is not the case in GIMP 2.4.4 under Windows. I also cannot add a shortcut via File > Keyboard Shortcuts as there is not entry for "print". Lars
That sounds like you do not have the Print plugin installed. Have you tried typing 'print' in the keyboard shortcuts dialog, with Plugins section opened up, to search for the print plugin?
Ah, I see. I didn´t know that this is a plugin. Is there any chance that Ctrl+P will become the default shortcut? IMHO this is strange to the "normal" user who is used to this shortcut from most of the other programs.
It should be ctrl+p upon a fresh user install. Not if you already had an existing setup for 2.2, which will be migrated, however. David: with 2.4 and up, the user would have to erase the print.exe manually to not have it installed. I seriously doubt someone would so such a specific change *and* then complain about a missing plugin ;)
I just installed it on a test system and the shortcut is there as expected. So, I can confirm this shortcut was not set because I updated from 2.2 to 2.4. Everything´s fine =) Thanks for the help.