Bug 56176

Summary:	[KDE4] allow save of print options located on main print dialog too
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeprint	Reporter:	mmorin <michel.morin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	CLOSED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description mmorin 2003-03-20 11:38:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

In the printer properties, could you add the an option for job-hold-until in the GUI to set or not all new jobs in the hold state ?
Adding it into the lpoptions is overwritten when use the save button.

TIA

Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2004-11-07 22:35:45 UTC

Michel,

thank you for your bug report.

The bug/wishlist item that your reported does however not apply to 
KDEPrint. 

The reason is this:  

   --> It is already implemented since many years!  <--   ;-)

I admit, it is not very obvious for expert users like you who are 
looking for the official IPP job attribute name and keyword 
"job-hold-until". 

The kprinter GUI represents this functionality on the "Advanced 
Options" tab (click on "Expand" to get a larger dialog window) 
-- "Schedule printing: Never (hold indefinitely) | Daytime | ... | 
... | Specified time | Immediately".

The bug report will be closed.

BTW, recent kprinter versions have already quite some "WhatsThis" 
help items included for the most important widgets you could 
click on or fill in. The "Schedule printing" is already covered. 

I am trying to make the WhatsThis help for KDEPrint complete in 
the coming months so that 100% of kprinter widgets are covered 
in KDE-3.4. -- Please have a look through all of the currently 
implemented ones and tell me where they could be more clear in 
the wording (or shorter, more verbose, etc.)

Cheers,
Kurt Pfeifle

Comment 2 Michael Goffioul 2004-11-08 14:49:00 UTC

I think he meant the fact that the user cannot set job-hold-until by default for any new job. A possible hack is to add it manually to lpoptions file, but this is lost when the file is rewritten by kdeprint (to be confirmed, but I think this is still the case).

Comment 3 Kurt Pfeifle 2005-01-28 16:53:26 UTC

Any news about this one, before I close it?

(I think we need a more generic solution for saving job options, and I may open a new wishlist/bug report about that.)

Comment 4 Michael Goffioul 2005-01-31 11:34:09 UTC

Not from my side. Options from the main print dialog are not saved. Dot. As you said, a more generic mechanism is needed.

Comment 5 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-11 05:07:40 UTC

Changed $summary and marked as KDE4 task

(previous $summary was: "job holded by default")

Comment 6 John Layt 2009-01-01 11:52:45 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.

Note that saving/restoring print defaults is not yet supported in Qt printing, a feature request will be raised with Qt for this.