Bug 518020 - Indicate printer status in the icons
Summary: Indicate printer status in the icons
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-printer
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: fitandfinish
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-08-18 13:58 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2009-10-09 03:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.1.13-3.fc11
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-08-20 17:20:28 UTC
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Description Matthias Clasen 2009-08-18 13:58:16 UTC
I unplugged a printer and saw no visual indication in s-c-printer that anything had changed. It would be good to indicate printer status in the icons. That would also increase consistency with the GTK+ print dialog, where we already use emblems to indicate printer status.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2009-08-19 16:32:52 UTC
There are two separate states here: 'accepting' and 'enabled'.  They're like gates at the start and end of the queue: jobs can only join the queue if the printer is 'accepting' jobs.  Jobs only get processed (and so leave the queue) if the printer is 'enabled'.

When a printer is unplugged, the queue is disabled (but its accepting state is left alone).

For 'accepting', we can put a 'paused' emblem on the icon like the GTK+ print dialog does.

For 'enabled', the GTK+ print dialog doesn't currently show these any differently.  What's the best approach for that?

Should a 'paused' icon be shown if the queue is either 'not accepting' or 'not enabled'?

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2009-08-19 18:47:10 UTC
Marek, what emblems are we showing in the print dialog, and for what queue states ?

Comment 3 Marek Kašík 2009-08-20 12:56:04 UTC
Hi,

Gtk+ print dialog shows paused emblem for disabled printer. Printer which rejects jobs is insensitive.

Other emblems are:
report  - not used now
warning - when there is a printer-state-reason with '-warning' suffix
error   - when there is no suffix or '-error' suffix

Regards

Marek

Comment 4 Marek Kašík 2009-08-20 12:57:31 UTC
ps: error and warning emblems have higher priority than pause emblem in gtk+ print dialog

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2009-08-20 16:43:17 UTC
OK, updated upstream.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-10-09 03:32:23 UTC
system-config-printer-1.1.13-3.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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