Today I've got to print about 20 graphic files. I was surprised that there is no such option in dolphin. I even tried to print those files from gwenview but it printed only one, selected file. I think there should be a way to print many files from dolphin (or gwenview) like it is MS Vista explorer (sic!). There should be also an option to print all files into a one pdf file.


P.S. Good solution maybe a possibility to open many files in one okular window/session and then print selected/all pages.

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I'm using KDE 4.1.3

IIRC, I have run in to this problem on other OS'es as well. Meaning that I can't print from the filemanager. It would be very convenient, if I could just select a file and choose "print".

Of course, there are problem. The system would actually be able to read that file. There are proprietary file-formats out there which are poorly supported if at all. How can we tell the user which files he can print and which he can't?

Janne wrote:How can we tell the user which files he can print and which he can't?

Perhaps with a dialog in which the selected files are listed with the hint "printing is not supported", so that he can decide whether he wants to print only the files that are supported or to cancel the whole thing...

Indeed this feature would have been one that really could have convinced my wife of KDE4. But unfortunately I had to open gwenview every single time... ,-)

This could be done by specialized menus, provided by applications themselves. This way all Dolphin does is start the associated application providing the appropriate 'print' arguments the application has specified.

These specialized menus would only show for certain mime types and could be implemented as service menus, for each application individually.

As long as selecting 20 pictures, right click on them and click on "print" doesn't open 20 instances of Gimp, it would be fine for me.. ,-)

It would queue them of course. So once the first one has closed, the next one is fired off. This allows supporting multiple different file types at once as well, although that may need some rather special service menus to achieve ( automatically determines if printable, shows if hides if not )

Maybe better is make special location, called: printer queue, which allows to drag there files. I know, that maybe KDE 3.x has something like that, but it be very good if we have these location in places. And we should have bulbs near icon - add to printer queue .

Once one thing. It would be good to open places on the right side on dolphin if we drag the files. We can put there additional action, based on file type.

I just had a another ( perhaps cleaner ) idea. Provide just one service menus, but when it comes to actually print, look in the association .desktop file for something like X-Print-Command and then execute that instead of the normal execution. If X-Print-Command is not found, then display a message saying that the associated application(s) do not support printing from other applications.

I've found some kind of solution. The gqview file viewer can print many selected files. I think there MUST be analogical possibility in gwenview.
Despite of this, there should be a way to start printing from dolphin. Sorry for that, but good example of such function has MS Vista explorer.
In my opinion in context menu should be an option 'print' that executes printing module from gwenview. Of course gwenview should have possibility to print many files (as I wrote before).


P.S. I've also combined gqview with cups-pdf printer so I can make one pdf file from many graphic files.

I've just installed KDE 4.3 and I haven't found nothing in this case. Has anyone knows anything?


P.S. I don't know if it's a write place to talk about it, maybe I should send email to kde developers?

Anything changed over a year, so I've got a question. Does developers read this forum? If not, where should I commit a request?

1. generally, no
2. Either the brainstorm forum or bugs.kde.org

You mean this:
brainstorm.php ??
I'm new in this topic...

Yes

i have done for png file and text file
jpeg need to be converted... well i have to improve the stuff with a script maaybe i wll do right now

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?ac ... ent=111784