I'd like to design a solution to this, but there are too many unanswered questions at the moment.
1. What did Martin Pitt mean by "one of the next cycles"? Did he mean 12.04 LTS, and if not, should the problem be fixed in system-config-printer? 2. Does the problem also occur in gnome-control-center? If so, could someone please attach a screencast of it occurring? 3. Till's question to Martin: Is Jockey doing anything else other than asking OpenPrinting for the driver? 4. Is the a OpenPrinting interaction a single HTTP request, or is it more complicated? (If it is more complicated, progress can be shown more granularly.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to jockey in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/900791 Title: Add printer takes too long (users cancel before completing) Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Watching a new user install a Network printer takes too long. A progress bar is shown, and continues to beat back and forth, but the operation takes so long that the user ends up cancelling the process. One month early I watched another user do precisely the same cancellation at the same point while adding the same network printer on the same network. Ideally the progress could be changed from a bouncing bar, to a progressing bar. This would give a sense of competition, that is lacking in the bouncing bar. It would probably even be tolerable to have a completion bar that times at the end. This would replace an unknown with a known. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/900791/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
