Bug 465407

Summary:	some ui issues
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Component:	system-config-printer	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	bnocera, twaugh
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Description Matthias Clasen 2008-10-03 06:26:08 UTC

Here are some things that might be improved in system-config-printer, ui-wise:

1. Setting default printer:

This overlaps somewhat with the quick-and-dirty my-default-printer. Is my-default-printer still needed ? If we want to keep it, it would be nice if it was closer to the s-c-p representation of the printer list...

Coming back to s-c-p itself, the "Set Default Printer" dialog feels somewhat overcomplicated by the fact that it crams system-wide and personal default into one dialog. It would probably be nicer to make this just about system-wide default, and leave personal default to my-default-printer.

When the authentication dialog (that comes up for setting system-wide default) is canceled, I get a warning dialog about the password being incorrect. Thats not nice. When I cancel an action, I don't want to be bothered with a warning that makes it appear as if the action was tried anyway. When I actually enter a wrong password, I don't get this warning, and instead the authentication dialog stays up, without a clear hint that the password was wrong.

2. Printer Properties:

The "Change..." buttons for the device uri and make and model fields both start long-running search operations and bring up a "Please wait" popup. It would be slightly nicer to do this without a popup dialog, e.g. by using a wait cursor and a statusbar that explains the operation. And more importantly, it should be possible to cancel this long-running operation.

On the Policies page, there are several combos that are filled with ipp strings. Those should be replaced with translated, human-readable names instead. GTK+ has translations for some of these, e.g. for the banners.

On the "Printer Options page, the horizontal scrollbar is really awful.

3. Server settings

The "Advanced..." button for bringing up a secondary dialog is awkward. I suggest turning this into Basic/Advanced tabs in a single dialog. The "Problems" link button has an empty tooltip. The separator between the dialog content and the action area looks very outdated nowadays, and should be removed.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2008-10-10 16:11:56 UTC

Thanks for your feedback.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Here are some things that might be improved in system-config-printer, ui-wise:
> 
> 1. Setting default printer: 
> 
> This overlaps somewhat with the quick-and-dirty my-default-printer. Is
> my-default-printer still needed ?

It isn't, no.  It was added because people seem to get quite confused about why the default printer they set isn't the default printer that system-config-printer shows.  I wanted to make the interaction between the system default and the user default clearer.

> It would probably be nicer to make this just about system-wide
> default, and leave personal default to my-default-printer. 

That approach causes the confusion I wanted to clear up by putting both types of default into the same dialog.

> When the authentication dialog (that comes up for setting system-wide default)
> is canceled,  I get a warning dialog about the password being incorrect. Thats
> not nice. When I cancel an action, I don't want to be bothered with a warning
> that makes it appear as if the action was tried anyway. 

Fixed upstream.

> When I actually enter a
> wrong password, I don't get this warning, and instead the authentication dialog
> stays up, without a clear hint that the password was wrong.

Fixed upstream.

> 2. Printer Properties:
> 
> The "Change..." buttons for the device uri and make and model fields both start
> long-running search operations and bring up a "Please wait" popup. It would be
> slightly nicer to do this without a popup dialog, e.g. by using a wait cursor
> and a statusbar that explains the operation. And more importantly, it should be
> possible to cancel this long-running operation. 

Yes, indeed.  Filed as trac ticket #102.

> On the Policies page, there are several combos that are filled with ipp
> strings. Those should be replaced with translated, human-readable names
> instead. GTK+ has translations for some of these, e.g. for the banners.

Filed as trac ticket #103.  The string freeze prevents this fix going in right now.

> On the "Printer Options page, the horizontal scrollbar is really awful. 

Unfortunately some of the common foomatic option names are quite lengthy but I can't seem to get them to wrap.  Any ideas?

> The "Advanced..." button for bringing up a secondary dialog is awkward. I
> suggest turning this into Basic/Advanced tabs in a single dialog.

Yes.  The reason for doing it as two dialogs is that two different mechanisms are used, but there's no reason this can't be hidden and a single dialog made.  Filed as trac ticket #104.

> The "Problems" link button has an empty tooltip.

Fixed upstream.

> The separator between the dialog
> content and the action area looks very outdated nowadays, and should be
> removed.

Fixed upstream.