Bug 3335

Summary:	Printing Multiple Documents Simultaneously
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	Gerard Seibert <gerard.seibert>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	users
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gerard.seibert
Priority:	P3
Version:	other
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Gerard Seibert 2014-11-24 13:33:21 UTC

I often print several emails out in succession. I noticed that if I highlight several emails, then <file> <print>, I am asked to confirm each file before it is printed. That does not make sense. If I highlighted several files and then click print, it is rather obvious that I wanted to print all of those files. This is a rather big annoyance if I am printing out say 25 or 30 emails.

MS Outlook allows me to print more than one file at a time, and I would like to see claws-mail offering the opportunity.

Could this behavior be modified? I could not find any configuration option that would address this problem.

Comment 1 Andrej Kacian 2016-08-30 09:28:27 UTC

There doesn't seem to be any straightforward way to batch print in GTK+ - each GtkPrintOperation has to be executed via gtk_print_operation_run(), which always displays the dialog. Even GTK3 doesn't have this added.

All the pieces seem to be there - you can store and restore settings, as well as other parameters, to a different GtkPrintOperation. Just the option to skip each operation's print dialog is missing.

The only way I can think of to work around this would be to stuff content of all e-mails into one "document", and print that, but that approach has issues of its own.