Bug 61445

Summary:	[KDE4] show progress bar instead of page count
Product:	[Applications] kdeprint	Reporter:	Charles Samuels <charles>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	CLOSED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Charles Samuels 2003-07-20 06:07:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

When you print a document, but limit the range to only N pages, like, let's say you have a 15 page document, and are only printing odd pages.  The printing dialog box (reasonably) shows that it's processing pages 1,2,3...  Fair enough.

But the problem is that the user is being misled, when I first saw it, I thought "hey!, I didn't ask for those pages!")

Instead of showing that it's processing those pages, just show a progress bar.  That way you even show a pretty graphical UI element :)

Thanks for the lovely work

-Charles

Comment 1 Michael Goffioul 2003-07-22 09:45:02 UTC

Subject: Re:  New: show progress bar instead of page count

> When you print a document, but limit the range to only N pages, like, let's say you have a 15 page document, and are only printing odd pages.  The printing dialog box (reasonably) shows that it's processing pages 1,2,3...  Fair enough.
> 
> But the problem is that the user is being misled, when I first saw it, I thought "hey!, I didn't ask for those pages!")
> 
> Instead of showing that it's processing those pages, just show a progress bar.  That way you even show a pretty graphical UI element :)

Not straightforward to inplement as most applications do not know
in advance the number of pages that are printed. I'll keep this
bug open anyway, and see what I can do (don't expect a quick solution).

Michael.

Comment 2 John Layt 2009-01-01 12:29:19 UTC

KDEPrint in KDE3 is unmaintained and will have no more new features implemented.  KDE4 uses the Qt print dialog instead.  This request will never be implemented as a result.  Closing.