gtk print dialog and OOo
by Caolán McNamara
We've supported a gtk print dialog integration in OOo for a while, but
there has always been a few little gotchas, and now that the "built-in"
OOo dialog has some nifty extras there are extra gotchas. So I'll be
reverting to the "built-in" dialog for F11, a quick dump of the gotchas
are..
*) Need an extra "Selection" option for printing.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344519
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563619
OOo can print just the selected text, selected graphic or selected
cells, but no way to show that in the gtk print dialog.
*) Way to specify the page size and orientation (esp. when using n-up
printing)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551409
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551726
Most OpenOffice.org applications have per-page orientations rather than
global per print-job orientation, but when printing multiple pages in
one sheet of paper through cups, its desirable to have a way to specify
the orientation and page size of the combined sheet. We could do this
with a custom tab, but see next entry
*) Emit a signal when a printer is selected.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564854
So e.g. a custom tab that should only exist for say, printing to a cups
backend, or using save as .pdf file can be shown/hidden depending on the
printer selection, e.g. pdf encryption options or pdf "read-only except
for filling in fields" directives which only make sense in a save
as .pdf context. Hackable around with nasty switch-page callback on the
notebook widget if you rummage around horrifically through the dialog
hierarchy looking for it.
*) Spreadsheet printing
No "All Sheets", "Selected Sheets" in addition to the pages options for
spreadsheets that may have multiple sheets each of which can span
multiple pages. "Page 1 of 2 sheets selected out of 3 sheets in total".
Could do a gnumeric and do this in a custom tab though
*) Presentation printing
Want to select notes, or outline, or handouts. Could do this in a custom
tab though.
13 years, 8 months
Raising the bar
by Matthias Clasen
Hey all,
we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish
with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. We
want to identify the small (and sometimes large) roadblocks that make
everyday computer use harder than it needs to be, and try to fix them.
'Fit and Finish' is meant to be complementary to the work of the Fedora
QA team. They do a great job of ensuring the quality of all the new
features that land in Fedora each cycle. But when features are developed
and tested on their own, the overall experience of the system as a whole
can sometimes end up a bit uneven and rough. 'Fit and Finish' will focus
on improving the way our users experience Fedora.
To achieve this, we will hold regular test days, each of which will
focus on use cases in a certain area. A few ideas for test day topics
can be found on the 'Fit and Finish' page already. If you have ideas for
other areas that could benefit from this kind of attention, please let
us know.
Our first test day will focus on display configuration, and will be held
on Tuesday, July 7, from 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT), in the
fedora-fit-and-finish irc channel on FreeNode. Please come and join us
there !
Matthias Clasen for the Desktop team
13 years, 8 months
Interested in scanning?
by Bastien Nocera
Heya,
Yesterday, I was browsing Ubuntu's "Blueprints" for their next release,
and saw this:
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnomescan
gnome-scan is already packaged by Deji, but I gather that more
integration work could be done to make setting up and using scanners
easier in GNOME and Fedora in general.
Any takers?
I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting
up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that
gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default
installation.
Cheers
/Bastien, who doesn't own a scanner
13 years, 9 months
Re: Raising the bar
by Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:48 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 2009/6/29 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com>:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora,
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish
> >
> > with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop.
>
> If you wish to improve *user* experience, then you should focus
> entirely on actual Fedora releases rather than on Rawhide. However I
> see that in testing days you still encourage only users with
> up-to-date Rawhide installations. That's not an option for wide
> audience, and, therefore this initiative will be doomed.
>
> --
> With best regards!
I have difficulty reconciling your last sentence, and your .sig.
In addition to rawhide live media, as Matthias mentioned, we'll be happy
to take bug reports against current releases. They're of slightly less
value, since they are effectively a list of things to check the next
rawhide against, and may never get fixed in the stream they're reported
against due to all the usual technical reasons (backport difficulty,
etc), but that doesn't mean they're valueless.
- ajax
13 years, 9 months
Re: Raising the bar
by Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:48 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> If you wish to improve *user* experience, then you should focus
> entirely on actual Fedora releases rather than on Rawhide. However I
> see that in testing days you still encourage only users with
> up-to-date Rawhide installations. That's not an option for wide
> audience, and, therefore this initiative will be doomed.
Making it easy for a wide audience to participate without requiring a
rawhide installation is certainly a goal. We will have live cds
available for the test days, just like you know from other Fedora test
days. As soon as live cd creation works again on rawhide...
Thanks for raising this point,
Matthias
13 years, 9 months
Empathy in F12
by Matthias Clasen
With empathy-2.27.3 in rawhide, I have now switched pidgin for empathy
in the default install. I haven't added any explicit telepathy modules,
so by default we'll just get what empathy pulls in: -gabble (XMPP),
-salut (XMPP/zeroconf) and -haze (protocols supported by libpurple).
I haven't added -sofiasip (and relegated ekiga to optional) yet, we can
finetune this later.
Matthias
13 years, 9 months
Gnote 0.5.0 now with support for importing Tomboy notes
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Gnote 0.5,0 released today and I have now built it for Rawhide, Fedora
11 and Fedora 10. It has support for importing Tomboy notes on first run
for a new user. With this feature being added, I believe all the desired
features discussed in this list before has been covered. If you got
more, feel free to file them (preferably in the upstream bug tracker).
Rahul
13 years, 9 months
PolicyKit changes in F12
by Matthias Clasen
Just a heads-up:
We hope to land a new PolicyKit version (which will turn into 1.0,
eventually) in F12 soon. The new version simplifies the API and will
require PolicyKit-using application to be ported. For more information,
have a look at the feature page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne
It also has pointers to api docs and a (terse) porting guide. We already
have a collection of patches for quite a few PolicyKit-using apps, so
the transitions should be relatively painless.
Matthias
13 years, 9 months
