582217 - Lightning overrides standard printer settings of Thunderbird irrevocably

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Printing, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Lightning 1.0 beta2

In Thunderbird/Lightning, after selecting a printer and entering printer settings like "landscape format" for "month view", these settings are fixed for the whole application. Turning back to Thunderbirds normal email list view I have to reset the printer settings every time I want to print an email (e.g. to portrait format).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change to the Lightning tab in Thunderbird
2. Click File->Print, then "month view" and "landscape format"
3. Apply/Print
4. Change back to email list view in Thunderbird
5. Select an email
6. Click File->Print, then select "portrait format"
7. Print!
8. Open the print dialog again for the same email: Click File->Print
Actual Results:  
You still see landscape format selected

Expected Results:  
you just switched to portait format. So this format should be selected!

The effect can be reversed by editing the about.config.
E.g. reset the key "print.print_printer" or/and in my case "print.printer_HP_LaserJet.print_orientation".

Comment 1

[Boying Lu]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.7)
> Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Change to the Lightning tab in Thunderbird
> 2. Click File->Print, then "month view" and "landscape format"
Does the "month view" the mean "Monthly Grid" in the "ayout" list?
and where is the "landscape format"? I can't find it in the UI.

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Resolving as WONTFIX as Thunderbird with fully integrated Lightning add-on shares the printer settings on purpose but with a better UI regarding the settings.