Hi there, I practically live inside a PDF reader, so I have pretty strict requirements. I print a lot of documents with different page settings, so I almost always need to access the additional settings under the "Options" expander button in the Okular print dialog. Would it be possible to please make it remember the expanded state of said button? Thanks a lot!
Me too, I think it would be very useful, enhancing productivity for people who often change the standard settings.
Can you please report which version of Qt is used by your Okular?
(In reply to Luigi Toscano from comment #2) > Can you please report which version of Qt is used by your Okular? Sure, it's Qt 5.11.2
Ok, not sure whether this is still an Okular issue or a Qt issue (there are few other fixes in 5.12). Moving back to CONFIRMED for now.
(In reply to Luigi Toscano from comment #4) > Ok, not sure whether this is still an Okular issue or a Qt issue I'm thinking that it's actually a Qt issue, because at least the Kate text editor (and probably other KDE / Qt programs) also appears to have this same behavior.
Possibly related bug (fixed upstream in Qt 5.12): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399429
I'm not sure what to answer here, my main concern is that the fact that you often need to change options doesn't mean that everyone else does. So remembering the state of whether option was expanded or not may not be in everyone's interest. As to whether this should be implemented in Qt or in Okular, well Okular could try to hack it by itself, but then that'd be really inconsistent with the rest of applications using the same print dialog, so that doesn't seem a good idea to me. You could try to convince Qt to do it, but given how much people (i.e. virtually noone) is doing printing related stuff in Qt I am not sure you'll get much traction there either.
It seems minimally invasive to just make it remember the last state of the options button. If most people never change it, then it will still be in a closed state by default. But those who need to use it will expand it and it will stay that way for them.
*** Bug 484648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***