Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic "~/output.pdf"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GTK+ |
Fix Released
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Medium
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Fix Released
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Low
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Timothy Arceri | ||
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In Jaunty, GNOME print dialogs have a "Print to File" printer available in the Print dialog. When you select this printer, the output file's suggested name is "output.pdf" and the suggested location is the user's home directory.
"output" is jargon, has the potential to collide with another file of the same name in the destination directory, and is difficult to remember as it has no relation to the name of the file being printed. Incorporating the source file's name in the output filename seems like a great improvement.
Saving to the user's home directory is reasonable, but the Desktop is a more accessible location. We may also want to consider saving the PDF to the same directory as the source file.
Suggestion:
* Always default to PDF format.
* Reuse the source filename if known, else use "Untitled" or the naming convention for unnamed files.
* Default to saving on the Desktop rather than inside the user's home folder.
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → round-6 |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | round-6 → lucid-round-3 |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | ubuntu → gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gtk2: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in gtk2: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja) |
Changed in gtk2: | |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
Changed in gtk: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
description: | updated |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja) → Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) |
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
tags: | added: css-sponsored-p |
Changed in gtk: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
affects: | gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
no longer affects: | gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
affects: | ubuntu → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → quantal-10-gtk |
Rather than saving to the user's desktop, consider defaulting to the user's XDG Documents directory. This helps keep the desktop spare, increases simple discoverability and access using the "Home" function from the file chooser (e.g. when attaching the PDF to email), and has a localised pathname that matches other guidance to the user on where document files should be stored.