Re: New API questions

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 23:30 +0300, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> 1. First of all, about old API, we have request from users to make
> printing of current page easily available. There is possibility to add 
> corresponding radio button in old API, but it's completely unusable.
> Just because when you add current entry, it became selected by default,
> and that is certainly not what user expects. By default all pages radio
> should be selected. Unfortunately there is no way to change this value,
> so I propose the attached patch.

Looks good. I'll verify it and check it in.

> 2. Second problem that attached patch should solve is that with new API
> passing GNOME_PRINT_DIALOG_RANGE to gnome_print_dialog_new creates two
> (old and new) frames with the same label "Print range". Moreover, flags
> don't manage visible controls on "Job" page. Proposed patch should make
> situation clearer - setting "flags" property will hide or show needed
> range control for both old and new API.

Thanks for sorting this out.

> 3. Third. We had requests to print pages in reverse order. In older view
> it was possible with "From ... to ..." entry by passing bigger page in
> first spinner and smaller one in second. Now I see this control was
> removed in CVS. Do you have any plans to implement such functionality.
> 
> 4. Generic one - I see new printing ui API is much different from older
> one and probably won't satisfy our needs. And it looks unfinished a bit.
> Is there any plan for future API already or it's in development stage?
> Some of our needs are listed below.