Tim, what do you think about making the following notification behavior the upstream default in system-config-printer?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#system-config-printer We do away with notification bubbles in general and instead, we do the following: * When a printer is added successfully using a matching printer driver, a “Printer added” notification bubble appears containing the text “`%s' is ready for printing.” and a “Configure” button. Instead, the Properties window for that printer should open unfocused directly. * When a printer is added successfully using a non-matching printer driver, a “Printer added” notification bubble appears containing the text “%s' has been added, using the %s' driver.” and a “Find driver” button. (system-config-printer 1.1 will also include a “Print test page” button.) Instead, the Properties window for that printer should open unfocused. * When you try to view jobs on a printer that requires authentication, an “Authentication required” notification bubble appears containing the text “Job requires authentication to proceed” and an “Authenticate” button that brings up an alert box saying “Authentication required for printing document `%s' (job %d)”. The notification bubble should be abolished, and the alert box should be invoked directly instead. * When a print job gets stuck for some reason, a notification bubble appears containing text “There was a problem processing the document” or similar, containing no buttons but staying open until it is clicked. This should be converted to an error alert box with an “OK” button. ken, pitti, Matthew, if Tim does not agree to make this behavior default, we need to have both this new and the old behavior available in the upstream code. By default, the new behavior should be used in the case that the notification facility is not supporting actions and the old behavior otherwise. In addition, a "./configure" option should also allow to force the old or the new behavior. ** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => High -- system-config-printer notification patch should auto-detect capabilities of notification daemon, so that it can get upstreamized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339847 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical Desktop Experience Team, which is a direct subscriber. Status in System Config Printer: Confirmed Status in “system-config-printer” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: system-config-printer Recently the default notification daemon in Ubuntu was replaced by a notify-osd which does not support action buttons. Therefore system-config-printer was patched to work without action buttons if needed, by using pop-up dialogs. Unfortunately this patch cannot be applied upstream, as the check for the notification daemon type is done in a Ubuntu-specific way: if os.environ.get('GDMSESSION') == "gnome-stracciatella": This should be replaced by a generic check on the notification daemon capabilities, using the Python equivalent of the function GList *notify_get_server_caps(void); (/usr/include/libnotify/notify.h). It should be "pynotify.get_server_caps()". As there are notification daemons with and without action button support, the assumption of system-config-printer to have action button support is an upstream bug which can be fixed by upstreamizing this patch. Ken VanDine, can you please fix the patch? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
