Subject: Paper size (was: Re: 2 misc patches)
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 08:32:03 CDT
According to Nils Barth <nils_barth@post.harvard.edu>:
> The second of these patches adds a LOT of page sizes -- basically all
> the metric page sizes (4A, 2A, A0-A10, 4B, 2B, B0-B10, C0-C10).
> Also, B4 had the wrong dimensions in our code; this fixes it.
>
> However, it
> SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED
> at present, since the `File->Page Setup...' dialog can't deal with
> this many page sizes, at least not on GNOME.
> This is because it presents them as simply a popup menu, which doesn't
> work if you have 40-50 page sizes: in the case of GNOME, the menu
> doesn't fit on the screen, at least with my settings, and the menu
> doesn't scroll.
> In any case, with this many page sizes, we need to rework the UI a
> little, since a flat list becomes a little overwhelming.
> I'd suggest something like MS Word's current (?) font list:
> a scroll box, together with most common page sizes at the top.
> The `most common' page sizes could be either:
> recently used page sizes
> locale-specific common page sizes
> Maybe best would be `recently used', but seed the list with
> locale-specific ones:
> For the US, I'd suggest `Letter, Legal, (some common envelope sizes)';
> for the rest of the world, I'd suggest `A4, B5, (some common envelopes: C5?)'
Common on the top, then all the other should be accessible for a
customizable dialog box that list them all and allow adding them to the popup.
Also a currently used papersize appear in the combo too.
Any comments ?
Hub
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