Re: GNOME goals : Print to File

Thanks a lot.

Can u suggest me some beginner coding level contribution that I can make on
gnome.I am finding little hard to find such a thing.


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Hashem Nasarat <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yep you're doing the right thing. I'm unsure about that GNOME goal. I
> believe GTK+3 apps mostly use a standard printing dialog.
>
> I used jhbuild to build and run gedit 3.11.x, and there is already a
> menu option to save the filename:
>
> http://imgur.com/jEgShzM
>
> Perhaps a preliminary method to go about cleaning up this GNOME goal
> would be to learn how GTK+3 apps open this printing dialog, verify that
> this unified printing dialog DOES now include the print to file
> filename (it definitely didn't used to, but it does now), and then
> update the wiki page with which apps are already finished (since they
> use this dialog), which are not needed, and which, if any, do printing
> without the standard printing dialog.
>
> On Sat 01 Feb 2014 12:32:45 PM EST, Atit Anand wrote:
> > Heya Everyone,
> >
> > Gedit has been listed at Gnome Goals
> > <https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/PrintToFile> . Although
> > the patch has been already submitted,I want to learn few things abt
> > it. The goal is to set suitable filename when print dialog is opened.
> >
> > For this 1st I need to clone the gedit repo and then find the proper
> > printing function in the source and then modifying it so that proper
> > filename can be displayed when print dialog is displayed.
> >
> > To check whether my modified code is working  or not ,I need to build
> > Gedit. Am i going rite..?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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