GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 307635
Overriding automatic timeline header
Last modified: 2012-01-06 15:25:07 UTC
Try to print out a large project. Following options would be nice: ability to print landscape, ability to print on larger format paper (not just scale up), ability to choose how far "zoomed in" is the output (e.g. scale-to-fit), ability to choose (override the auto-detect) whether month names are shown.
The first two are already possible to do, just choose the paper size and orientation in the print dialog. The third one is a separate bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129141 I'm not sure about the last one. Why would it be needed, as long is the selection works well automatically? If it doesn't work well, we should make it better instead of just adding a setting for it, in my opinion.
Yes, sorry for the confusion. First two are already possible (mea culpa) and third is a dup, as you say (I searched explicitly under v0.13, so missed it!). There doesn't seem to be a voting scheme under this bugzilla, but bug #129141 would get my vote as printing is much less useful without it. For the last one: yes, if the automatic selection worked better and could guess what I want, then that would be fine; but it might be easier to add (for example) an "advance options" tab within the print dialogue and allow users to specify it explicitly. For me, the week-of-year numbers are useless and just take up space. I'd prefer day-of-month numbers + month + year (or quarter+year numbers if sufficiently zoomed out). Others must have different preferences, so I think there's a need for some way the user can specify this.
Adding an "advanced options" tab anywhere is against our goal to keep the tool simple and uncluttered. Automatic timeline header does its work by selecting the appropriate form to display depending on the zoom level, so as to always be relevant. Try zooming in and out to see how it adjusts. I really doubt introducing customisation here would do a better job. Therefore, I'm closing this.