Issue 116778 - new print dialog: printer list should auto scroll to current
Summary: new print dialog: printer list should auto scroll to current
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.3
Hardware: PC (x86_64) Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2011-02-03 11:55 UTC by hanspl
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Screenshot: how it should be (51.56 KB, image/png)
2011-06-21 07:00 UTC, the_arioch 		no flags Details
Screenshot: how it is currently (51.23 KB, image/png)
2011-06-21 07:02 UTC, the_arioch 		no flags Details
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Description hanspl 2011-02-03 11:55:43 UTC 
Opening a document and the new print dialog:  If I have several printers
installed (in my case,  11 printers) and the current printer is after the 4th
place,  I cannot see which one is currently selected and must first scroll the
list.  I may not click into the list (would change the selection),  I have no
hotkey to show it up.  

In the new print dialog,  the printer list should auto scroll to the currently
selected printer so to show it up.
Comment 1 eric.savary 2011-02-03 12:28:08 UTC 
Reassigned to Requirements
Comment 2 Oliver Brinzing 2011-02-03 17:44:05 UTC 
maybe this is a dup of:
changing windows default printer not reflected in open document
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99074
Comment 3 the_arioch 2011-06-21 06:58:17 UTC 
No, it is not.

This is not the question "when and how sync per-document settings awith per-computer settings"

This is local misfeature of OOo-styled print dialog (or, from different angle of view, global misfeature of the listbox widget, used in the dialog)

It does not matter what printer is default and so one - it only matters that user should see on which printer he gonna print now.
Current dialog hides this info from user and confuses user for quite a while.
Comment 4 the_arioch 2011-06-21 07:00:49 UTC 
Created attachment 76626 [details]
Screenshot: how it should be

User-friendly listbox should auto-scroll to the currently selected item, until user manually overrided it (obviously: if dialog is just opened, user could not and did not overrided auto-scroll yet)
Comment 5 the_arioch 2011-06-21 07:02:51 UTC 
Created attachment 76627 [details]
Screenshot: how it is currently

This is how dialog is rendered now. Which of 4 displayed printers would document go to ? Non of that ??? where is my document ???...

It does confuses users, though might sound silly.