[Bug 382829] Re: Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic "~/output.pdf"

[Timothy Arceri]

Thanks Sebastien, let me know how you go. I'm happy to make changes,
improve the testing app, and write any documentation needed for the api
guide etc. I just find it hard to contact the devs as I'm in the
Australian timezone. Also the people I have spoken to said that not many
devs are willing to make changes to printing module as its a dark corner
not many GTK devs are willing to touch.

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Title:
  Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic
  "~/output.pdf"

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  New
Status in GTK Version 2:
  Invalid
Status in GTK 3:
  New
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  In Progress
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In Jaunty, GNOME print dialogs have a "Print to File" printer
  available in the Print dialog. When you select this printer, the
  output file's suggested name is "output.pdf" and the suggested
  location is the user's home directory.

  "output" is jargon, has the potential to collide with another file of
  the same name in the destination directory, and is difficult to
  remember as it has no relation to the name of the file being printed.
  Incorporating the source file's name in the output filename seems like
  a great improvement.

  Saving to the user's home directory is reasonable, but the Desktop is
  a more accessible location. We may also want to consider saving the
  PDF to the same directory as the source file.

  Suggestion:
   * Always default to PDF format.
   * Reuse the source filename if known, else use "Untitled" or the naming convention for unnamed files.
   * Default to saving on the Desktop rather than inside the user's home folder.

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