Bug 61445 - [KDE4] show progress bar instead of page count
Summary: [KDE4] show progress bar instead of page count
Status: CLOSED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kdeprint
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist
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Reported: 2003-07-20 06:07 UTC by Charles Samuels
Modified: 2009-01-01 12:29 UTC (History)
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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.