Daniel T Chen wrote: > I can't confirm this symptom in 9.04. Please set the status to: > 1) New if reproducible in a supported or development Ubuntu version, or > 2) Invalid if you cannot reproduce it in a supported or development Ubuntu > version. >
This bug is ancient, but is still present for normal gimp printing. Is there any chance at all that bugs on what was a new release 18 months ago can be looked at a bit quicker? The old dialog (on gimp <= 2.2?) had all the relevant things one needed to control on it, one could envisage improvements, but it was OK. This has been replaced, since, by a gnome print panel which a) does not remember every parameter (such whether one wants borderless or not) b) does not remember the printer type (it always reverts back to "Generic printer") c) does not reliably "take" paper size or printer changes during program operation and d) has all the things that one needs to twiddle on different tabs. Oh and the automatic fitting of landscape and portrait pictures to the orientation of the paper that is in the printer has gone as well. You have *NO* idea how annoying that is! Try (on something like a Canon IP4000 which has two trays) to change from portrait image, 6x4 borderless in 1200 dpi from the bottom tray on Canon GP301 paper to a landscape image, A4 bordered at 2400 dpi on Kodak Elite paper on the main top feed. On (what is here) a non-default printer. You will then see what I am talking about. The printing dialogs in gnome are frankly shit. They are obviously written last and by programmers for their convenience. In this case someone has actually made the printing dialog in the gimp *worse*. Printing, in general, seems to be the cinderella thing in Linux, probably because it is *really* hard - if I had some time I would do something about it - sadly that isn't the case, so you get this whinge instead. If Ubuntu could contribute one really good thing it would be a better printer *USER* interface - I think it is one of the major things that puts people off Linux. And it would also steal a march on Windows, whose interfaces are not a huge amount better. In the meantime, Turboprint have recognised that the new gimp print dialog is not up to the job and have (thankfully) restored the old gimp interface, with a few improvements, and I now use that. It is well worth the few euros it costs! Regards Dirk -- Gimp-print in Dapper ignores settings when using Turboprint. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/45847 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
