Bug 311656

Summary:	duplex printing option greyed out when it shouldn't be.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	illumilore <illumilore>
Component:	print-dialog	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugzilla, christoph.ruessler, dantti12, lambda165, m.weghorn, xrg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description illumilore 2012-12-13 21:50:07 UTC

kde 4.9.4
brother mfc-j825dw

when hitting ctrl-p to bring up the print dialogue and then options>options tab, the duplex printing option is greyed out, even though the printer driver supports it, and the support is even shown if you go to system settings> printer configuration> printer options tab, there will be an entry/option that says : "Two-Sided" with options "Long-Edge Binding", "Short-Edge Binding" and "Off".

Comment 1 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-01-11 20:46:15 UTC

print-manager has nothing to do with that dialog, it's from Qt please report the bug there,
Thanks.

Comment 2 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-01-11 20:52:53 UTC

Actually there's a print-dialog component in kdelibs

Comment 3 lambda165 2013-01-22 20:40:27 UTC

Actually, this bug exists.  Duplex printing in kde 4.9 on linux mint 14 is broken.

That's right.  KDE 4.9 still can't print correctly.  Big surprise there, huh?

Comment 4 Christoph Rüßler 2014-11-16 17:45:11 UTC

I can confirm this bug on Kubuntu 14.10. I can’t select any duplex option when printing with Okular or KMail while LibreOffice ist able to do duplex printing without problems.

This bug affects me after an upgrade from Kubuntu 14.04. Before that, duplex printing from Okular worked as expected.

If this indeed is a Qt bug please let me know, so I can report it there.

Comment 5 P. Christeas 2016-08-24 12:04:34 UTC

Confirm, broken in kde 4.12.5 , kde 4.19 (Mageia 4 and 5).

As a side note, printer classes do display the duplex options (active, working).

Comment 6 P. Christeas 2016-08-25 08:39:38 UTC

I guess this is the corresponding Qt bug, although for Qt5:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46093

A quick browse in the source of kdelibs/kutils/... suggests that KDE has little to do with printer options; they seem to be in Qt.

Comment 7 P. Christeas 2016-08-25 12:36:35 UTC

I seem to have nailed the "bug" in Qt (the one above), but this may require non-trivial changes, unlikely to be fixed in stable branches.

In the meanwhile, looking for the corresponding CUPS failure.

Comment 8 Daniel Nicoletti 2018-01-25 18:58:38 UTC

*** Bug 341429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Daniel Nicoletti 2018-01-25 19:15:13 UTC

Closing this as this has nothing to do with this component as stated earlier.

Comment 10 Daniel Nicoletti 2018-01-25 19:30:24 UTC

*** Bug 344399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Daniel Nicoletti 2018-01-26 12:40:10 UTC

*** Bug 373661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***