Bug 318495

Summary: HIG Problems with Manage Print Jobs plasma widget
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] print-manager Reporter: Richard Llom <richard.llom>
Component: generalAssignee: Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: m.wege
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: 4.10.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Chakra   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318455
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318517
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 303462    
Attachments: Screenshot of print widget and app with comments

Description Richard Llom 2013-04-17 09:37:04 UTC
Created attachment 78982 [details]
Screenshot of print widget and app with comments

There are some HIG problems with the Manage Print Jobs plasma widget:
- Strange register in upper right corner, not clear what it does and no description also.
- Only the description of the printer is shown, but not the name. This is a problem since only the printer name is unique, not the description. Also in the Print dialog one chooses a printer by name, not by description.

Then there is also the print-queue app in which everything is different, this should be uniform.

See also attached screenshot.
Comment 1 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-04-17 18:58:59 UTC
It's not a register, it's a switch, as with any switch it's used to enable/disable the printer (It's a standard plasma component, which imo should be like the one on Android that has I and O for on/off).

For the other issues some already have been fixed in master.
Comment 2 Richard Llom 2013-04-19 14:55:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> It's not a register, it's a switch, as with any switch it's used to
> enable/disable the printer (It's a standard plasma component, which imo
> should be like the one on Android that has I and O for on/off).
> 
Ah, ok didn't notice this component in KDE before (and I don't haven Android either). Is it possible to customize it, e.g. like putting the "play" and "pause" symbols on it?

> For the other issues some already have been fixed in master.
> 
So they come with 4.10.3?
Comment 3 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-04-19 18:21:29 UTC
No, it's not easy to change the component, which is why imo it should have show I and O like android does.

Also no 4.10.3, master is 4.11 as most of these changes break translations...
Comment 4 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-04-26 21:23:56 UTC
Git commit b6ae57fc4f64ae6f8eaf2e724036e1d7f0b032de by Daniel Nicoletti.
Committed on 26/04/2013 at 23:21.
Pushed by dantti into branch 'KDE/4.10'.

Fix consistency between namings, showing printer description on print-queue too

M  +16   -5    printqueue/PrintQueueUi.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/print-manager/b6ae57fc4f64ae6f8eaf2e724036e1d7f0b032de