[Ubuntu] [hardy] ooo2 should use gnome print dialog

[Ben Maurer]

RH has a patch that makes ooo use the GNOME print ui:

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-1.9.121.rh127576.gnomeprintui.patch?rev=1.9&view=auto

Ubuntu should do the same.

[Martijn Vermaat (mvermaat)]

Yes, it should. Just as it should use the GTK filechooser dialog:

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17956

Using the Gnome print UI would probably also fix this bug:

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16864

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

confirmed; the patch makes OOo unconditionally dependent on the gnome libs

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

... and makes OOo crash

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Can't the same approach be taken as was done with Network-Manager? I believe that they created:
Network-Manager-Gnome; and
Network-Manager-KDE

This would allow the print, save/load dialogues etc. to use proper system ones for each. It wouldn't add extra difficulty to the users, either, as Ubuntu would come pre-installed with OOo-Gnome and Kubuntu with OOo-KDE.

Would that work?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

turned on in dapper

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

in gutsy the gnome print dialog disappeared
using version
2.2.1~rc3-1ubuntu3

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Matthias,

Is this still the case for Feisty/Gutsy? It looks like the version in Feisty isn't the Gnome print dialog either but I may be mistaken.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

confirming that this bug is also for feisty

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

sorry but I think that openoffice.org-gnome should integrate it... but it does not. Only the gtk file dialogs are integrated (but they are in the -gtk)

[ne (office-sico)]

No it should not!

The Gnome Print-UI has more problems up to now, as OOo.
So for example in my case, (Epson D120) I can print from Openoffice, KDE, Testpage, etc.
... but not from Gnome-Print. Evince, gthumb, etc..

Check for bugs in Gnome-print and you will see that forcing it into a working (critical) application
would be a really bad idea.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

If gnome-print does not work it is not a problem of this this bug.
In this bug I'm asking gnome-print in openoffice because it adds some
useful print options that the default print dialog does not have
please fill in another bug.

[Philipp Schlesinger (philipp-sadleder)]

gnome-print will be deprecated, but there is a patch [1] that makes use of the new gtk printing api [2].

[1] http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-2.0.3.rh127576.gtkunixprintdialog.patch?rev=1.38&view=markup
[2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/Printing.html

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

all right, I only care that the printing dialog is the same in all applications!

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Get this in if at all possible under limited time resources, will have to try to modify redhat patch to be only when using ooo-gtk