Bug 129140

Summary: Wording in printer dialog
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze>
Component: UIAssignee: Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: target:6.5.0 target:6.4.0.1
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:

Description Heiko Tietze 2019-12-02 06:03:10 UTC 
I got an email about wrong wording; the request sounds good to me:

The printer dialog in 6.3.3.2 looks new to me. It's nice, but with a duplex printer it comes up with the "Paper Sides" dialog box, and the wording in the drop-down seems to be a conflation of two different ways of saying it.

The simple English version is we print *on* paper, so it should read "print *on* one side" or "print *on* both sides".

The writer may have got confused with "print *in* simplex" and "print *in* duplex.

My preferred dialog would read

Print on one side (simplex)
Print on both sides (duplex long edge)
Print on both sides (duplex short edge)
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2019-12-02 07:52:03 UTC 
What I find is "Paper sides" with

Print only in one side
Print in both sides (long edge)
Print in both sides (short edge)

(should be "on" as well) but no "Print in Duplex". A screenshot might help.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2019-12-03 03:33:21 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Anthony Youngman 2019-12-03 21:50:26 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> What I find is "Paper sides" with
> 
> Print only in one side
> Print in both sides (long edge)
> Print in both sides (short edge)
> 
> (should be "on" as well) but no "Print in Duplex". A screenshot might help.

Yes those are the options that appear. "print on both sides" is just user-ese for duplex. That's why I suggested the options the way I did - user-ese first followed by technical-ese in brackets. So the three options are single-sided, double-sided portrait, and double-sided landscape.

Basically, all I'm asking is that those three options just be re-worded as I suggested (or something similar) because, as it stands, they might be perfectly understandable but they are not correct English.

Seeing as both my printers are fully duplex capable, I don't know what is displayed if/when you offer "manual duplex" where the program prints odd pages, waits for the user to turn the paper over, and then prints even pages.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2019-12-05 15:18:34 UTC 
Patch inc
Comment 5 Commit Notification 2019-12-06 06:18:02 UTC 
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/291b1acd3b9664ed41954458648448d7799d4df9

Resolves tdf#129140 - Wording in printer dialog

It will be available in 6.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 6 Commit Notification 2019-12-06 07:23:34 UTC 
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-4":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/30912c4953b18bd47ef870aa7edcd2847e702934

Resolves tdf#129140 - Wording in printer dialog

It will be available in 6.4.0.1.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.