Comment 10 for bug 134682

I have withdrawn the proposed fix of moving the output to the ~/Desktop directory as this will have several problem. Users can configure another directory to be displayed on the desktop and also they could not like the desktop being cluttered by the generated PDFs. So we will leave the destination being "~/PDF", as no known application is using this directory.

The only solution would be using either a D-Bus notification or better a pop-up asking the user where to drop the file. This would need major changes to be done by upstream for which it is too late to include them in Gutsy.

In general it is a much better soplution to have the applications by themselves generating PDFs via "File"/"Export to PDF ..." or "File"/"Print ...". OpenOffice.org has "File"/"Export to PDF ..." and the current printing dialogs of both KDE and GNOME have functionality to print into a PDF file, actually saving it as PDF, asking the user for name and location. This is the most intuitive and does not involve any system process which runs with other rights than the calling user, so it gives also the maximum security.

cups-pdf is an interim solution for all the apps which did not yet adopt the latest printing dialogs (especially Firefox and Thunderbird). So we will remove cups-pdf from Ubuntu as soon as all apps have caught up. In the mean time we will only sync with upstream and fix bugs.

The real bug is in the apps which do not use the current printing dialogs.