RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Printing

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

Good point. Why we would use OK when even our own GUI guidelines state
we should never use OK but always use the action verb.

If we get the print preview for free, I'd keep it (not that's it's real
preview - er, I'm guessing)

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Driscoll
> Sent: 20 June 2006 17:05
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Printing
> 
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 16:42, Phil Martin wrote:
> > FYI: The tweaks to the gnomeprintui dialog I had in mind were quite
> > simple:
> > * Hide the "Jobs" tab
> > * Hide the "Print Preview" button
> > * Change the "Print" button to "OK"
> > * Change the dialog title
> > Quite simple - not too cute.
> 
> Phil
> 
> Is there a good reason for wanting to remove the "Print 
> Preview" button? I find it very useful, if only for trapping 
> problems like getting the portrait/landscape setting wrong, 
> and for checking multi-page poster output before committing to paper.
> 
> Also, I've checked through about 20 applications on my SuSE 
> 10.1 box (using all the different widget sets I can find). 
> All of them, except for OpenOffice.org use 'Print' rather 
> than 'OK' to initiate printing. Perhaps it would fit in 
> better to go with "Print", at least on Linux?
> 
> Cheers
> --
> Phil Driscoll
>