GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635611
Embed page setup dialog in the print dialog
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:01:50 UTC
There is a possibility of embedding the paper size combo and orientation combo in the print dialog since Gtk+ 2.17.4. It is activated by calling the gtk_print_operation_set_embed_page_setup() function. It would be nice to have this feature also in f-spot, as photos do not have an absolute size. You select the print size of a photo only when you actually print it and photos are often printed on sizes which are not the standard size of the printer (4x6 inches/10x15 cm). So the page size and orientation should be easily accessable during the printing action, which means that they are best placed in the printing dialog. To implement this one only needs a small patch doing the following things: - Remove the "Page Setup" menu entries (and toolbar buttons) - Remove call-back functions to open the "Page Setup" dialog - Add call of gtk_print_operation_set_embed_page_setup() function to initialization of print dialog - Add calls to load page setup setting on print dialog initialization and save them on OK/Print/Apply in print dialog (to remember next print dialog call or even next session). See the patches attached to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614451 http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2733 See also the Ubuntu Blueprint for improving usability of photo printing: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-improve-photo-printing
Note that also bug 633188 should be fixed to be able to test the fix of this bug.
Same problem also reported for the GIMP as bug 635615.
Reported also for Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/f-spot/+bug/680483
F-Spot has moved to https://github.com/f-spot/f-spot/issues If this Bugzilla ticket is still valid in a recent version of F-Spot, please feel free to post this topic as a ticket in the F-Spot project on GitHub. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping as we are planning to shut down GNOME Bugzilla in favor of GNOME Gitlab.