| Summary: | print margins are not remembered / not persistent | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | haro <habista> |
| Component: | part | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | E.microcorys, emilio.recio, linux, shaun.andrew |
| Priority: | HI | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
haro
2009-08-31 17:15:58 UTC
I can confirm this particularly for KMail. Using KDE 4.3.1, Kontact 4.3.2. I have to print emails quite regularly, and every time, for every single printout, I have te set the margins new, otherwise the margins are too narrow. This is quite annoying. Using Linux openSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.5 / 4.6. I can confirm this issue persists. Changing margin settings in KDE Print -> Properties -> margins is not persistent. Having to change 4 specific margin settings for each print job is quite frustrating and a big waste of time. The problem is reproducible in other KDE apps, including Konqueror, Kwrite, Kate and Kmail. There is no obvious place for users to change default margins elsewhere. Entering specific margin settings with CUPS lpoptions command (~/.cups/lpotions) is not effective - default KDE margin settings continue to apply. I do not know how to enter specific margin settings for Qprinter. When Kate / Kwrite is installed from openSUSE repos for KDE4 the default is 4.23mm all round. Saves paper but too narrow for my purpose. When Kate / Kwrite is installed from openSUSE repos for LXDE the default is 1in (T&B), 1.25in (L&R). More practical for my purpose. If this is not a bug, it would be helpful if directions could be provided to enable users to set alternate and persistent default margins. This is a huge issue in the Qt printing system. Setting the margins with QPrinter::setPageMargins(...) does not have any effect on the QPrintDialog, although it operates on QPrinter. I've tried to work around the bugs in the QPrinter and QPrintDialog with setPageMargins() and getPageMargins() without any success. It first needs to be fixed in Qt. Relevant links: - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256975 - https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15351 (most important) - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051 Chances that this gets fixed are low, unfortunately. Git commit 1aa12bace62fffbcad357623842a0fc01607b3c0 by Dominik Haumann. Committed on 07/08/2011 at 14:26. Pushed by dhaumann into branch 'master'. attempt to work around Qt printing bugs NOTE: Saving & loading the margins works around QPrinter/QPrintDialog bugs: - https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15351 - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205802 - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051 Changing the margins now works. However, when you reopen the print dialog later, the WRONG margins are displayed. The correct ones are still used. This is a critical bug in Qt. The real issue is Qt. And it's a critical one. But since it wasn't fixed for years, it probably will never get fixed. That's why this workaround is better than nothing... CCBUG: 205802 CCBUG: 180051 M +43 -1 part/utils/kateprinter.cpp M +2 -0 part/utils/kateprinter.h http://commits.kde.org/kate/1aa12bace62fffbcad357623842a0fc01607b3c0 Found a duplicate report in kdelibs. So close this. We cannot do more about it anyway. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198172 *** *** Bug 287864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** For the record: This change-set was removed again in commit http://commits.kde.org/kate/7d598e1ad7531ceb90e0f98df4b13bfbc8300a5a since this issue is fixed in Qt 5.0. Therefore, in Kate running on Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 (Plasma Next), this issue is cleanly resolved. |