Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2013-02-25 10:51 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: Would it be helpful to fix this in two stages? EG, go ahead and land your backend changes now, but continue to use an app-modal dialog (which is driven by your new events). The new UI could then be investigated separately as an independent followup.

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread Justin Dolske
On 2/25/13 1:14 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650960 seeks to replace the existing print progress bars with something that isn't app-modal. This doesn't directly answer your question, but: Would it be helpful to fix this in two stages? EG, go ahead and l

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread smaug
On 02/25/2013 11:28 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: On 2/25/2013 4:14 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: The current thinking is that we need *some* indication that a print job is in progress, because we need to prevent the user from closing the tab or window until the print job has been completely handed

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread smaug
On 02/26/2013 01:18 AM, Daniel Holbert wrote: On 02/25/2013 01:57 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: We clone static copies of documents for print preview. We could potentially do the same for normal printing, I'd think. I'm almost certain that we already do. (smaug would know for sure) We clone do

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Holbert
On 02/25/2013 01:57 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > We clone static copies of documents for print preview. We could potentially > do the same for normal printing, I'd think. I'm almost certain that we already do. (smaug would know for sure) ___ dev-platform ma

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 02/25/2013 04:57 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Benjamin Smedbergwrote: On 2/25/2013 4:14 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: The current thinking is that we need *some* indication that a print job is in progress, because we need to prevent the user from closing the tab or

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread Bobby Holley
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > On 2/25/2013 4:14 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> The current thinking is that we need *some* indication that a print job >> is in progress, because we need to prevent the user from closing the tab or >> window until the print job has been

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 2/25/2013 4:14 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: The current thinking is that we need *some* indication that a print job is in progress, because we need to prevent the user from closing the tab or window until the print job has been completely handed off to the OS. Why? Is the user allowed to inte

Re: Soliciting advice on #650960 (replacement for print progress bars)

2013-02-25 Thread Andreas Gal
Do we actually need the tab, or just the document? If its the latter, can we just keep the document around invisibly? Andreas On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650960 seeks to replace the > existing print progress bars with some