Bug 144149

Summary: kjobviewer should show the number of jobs in the system tray
Product: [Unmaintained] kdeprint Reporter: Brian DeRocher <brian>
Component: kjobviewerAssignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status: CLOSED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: jlayt
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Brian DeRocher 2007-04-12 18:45:10 UTC 
Version:           0.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

This would be nice because some idiot is printing 324 pages 8 times and i want to know when my print job is done.

This would make kjobviewer consistent with kmail and akregator.

If this design pattern continues, you could then have a single icon in the tray that sums the numbers of the icons.
Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-04-13 01:05:41 UTC 
Why does printing 8 copies of 324 pages make someone an idiot?
Comment 2 Brian DeRocher 2007-04-13 03:17:11 UTC 
You're right.  People have every right to print 324*8 pages.  But he intended to print just a few pages of his document.  Let me rephrase that paragraph...

This would be nice because if your print job will not be done for a long time, a small indicator in the system tray will tell you when it is.
Comment 3 John Layt 2009-01-02 17:11:55 UTC 
KDEPrint in KDE3 is unmaintained and will have no more new features
implemented.  This request will never be implemented in KDEPrint as a result.  

In KDE4 kjobviewer has been replaced by printer-applet which uses
system-config-printer as a backend.  

Nice idea, but I don't think this could be implemented in a reliable fashion.  While the printers PPD does provide a simplex Throughput value in pages-per-minute it is not guaranteed to be present or accurate (my 22ppm printer has a value of 1).  More problematic is that CUPS often doesn't know how many pages are in a print job if the application hasn't set this correctly in the print file, the only reliable info CUPS has is the job size in bytes (see other bug reports regarding pages in print jobs).  Consequently I suspect most jobs would not be able to have a value calculated making the feature next to useless.

Closing.