On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:22:59PM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Dec 22, 2007 6:14 PM, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote:
Hi Everyone, I was just in the process of fixing a small problem with the parenting of the Print dialog to stop it sinking beneath the document window, and I noticed something that I don't quite understand.
What's supposed to be the difference between "Print" and "Print Direct"?
- because right now, in terms of code, the menu options do *extactly*
the same thing - that is show the print dialog, and allow you to print. Is Print Direct about to become a useful feature, or has something odd crept in here?
I have raised this issue before:
http://www.nabble.com/print-and-print-direct-to13147160.html#a13147160
Now that we use Cairo, I think it's time to finally simplify this and always use just one PS cairo renderer for print. Or when available, cairo PDF or maybe even directly SVG when such a thing as SVG printer appears.
I tend to agree. It sounds like this print direct might be some leftover remnant of the old print system. If there's no evident purpose for it, it should be removed. One less thing to confuse users.
I also wonder if there's more vestigal windows-specific code chunks that are not being well maintained. The cost of having windows-specific code chunks is that the Linux-based developers are not likely to notice regressions in them, or be able to keep them up to date as other things move forward.
Bryce