On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:12:22PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:52:25PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > > > So the question is what to do about this. Option (i): Kill the box. If a > > user wants to run dvips -Pwhatever, let h'er enter it into the Printer > > Command box. Option (ii): Keep the box, but add a tooltip along the > > lines I suggested last: Either "Check this box only if you have > > config.<printer> files installed for each printer you use." Or: "If you > > don't know what this does, you don't need it. (See info dvips for help.)" > > > > Enrico, would that be OK with you? > > > > > > I think option (ii)a would be correct. Notice that I don't have > > multiple resolution printers, so I don't use it myself. > > > Here's what I intend to do: > (i) Label the button "Adapt output to printer". Anything more > intelligible will encourage neophytes to check this, which would be bad. > (ii) Tooltip: "Customizes output to a given printer. Expert option." > Discourages its use, again a good thing. > (iii) whatsThis: "Normally, this needs to be checked...." continuing > with stuff about dvips and config.* files. > > I also propose to change "Printer name" to "Default printer". That seems > to be what it does. I also propose to re-arrange this dialog a bit. > "Spool options" should be to the right of "spool command", and both of > those should be at the bottom, since the other options affect the main > command. A separator makes it clear that these are not connected with > the other options. I've also added some tooltips for things that didn't > have them. > > Large useless patch attached. Also a screenshot. OK?
I don't see why "Set printer" is any different from "Spool printer". If the "Spool command" is "lp", then "-d" should be used to specify the printer, otherwise, if "Spool command" is "lpr" then "-P" is to be used. (I think you opened a can of worms :) -- Enrico
