[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

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@John Vivirito: I added Ubufox at comment #28 asking for comment on the
suggestion that perhaps this could be fixed in Ubufox, as initially
outlined in my comment #27.  I haven't received any reply, so I'm asking
again.  Thanks for noticing, though.

I'll be the first to admit that fiixing it in Ubufox smacks of a
workaround, but then upstream has a much more varied collection of
deployment scenarios to cater to, whereas Ubuntu 9.04 and up is a
reasonably well-defined and standard platform to code against; and so
the fix could be a lot simpler than what upstream will ultimately need
to come up with.  In particular, you can handle just the Linux subset of
possible scenarios, and count on basic locale support etc to be properly
set up.

My somewhat brittle proposal would be for the postinst script to hack
the default value in the .js file based on information in
/etc/papersize; (I wish I would not be saying this, but) with security
upgrades coming down the pipe with some reliability, this script would
realistically run every couple of months, at least.  Yes, this is ugly,
but it could fix "the easy 80%".

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Default page size for printing is letter
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910
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