Public bug reported:
Today I thought I had a problem with my printer only to find out after
roaming through various printer related windows that the printer was set
to be offline (maybe due to a temporary network error yesterday
evening). However noticing this critical detail was hard.
IMO the user should have a prominent indication of the online/offline
state of a printer when there are jobs waiting and an obvious way to
alter the state.
For example the printer icon in the notification area should flash or
have an overlaid "stoped" icon and the menu you get by clicking it
should have an option "Printer is offline -- click to bring it back
online". Also when a printer goes offline for some reason other that the
user requesting a pop up notification should appear.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Package changed: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) => ubuntu
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: system-config-printer
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Today I thought I had a problem with my printer only to find out after
roaming through various printer related windows that the printer was set
to be offline (maybe due to a temporary network error yesterday
evening). However noticing this critical detail was hard.
IMO the user should have a prominent indication of the online/offline
state of a printer when there are jobs waiting and an obvious way to
alter the state.
For example the printer icon in the notification area should flash or
have an overlaid "stoped" icon and the menu you get by clicking it
should have an option "Printer is offline -- click to bring it back
online". Also when a printer goes offline for some reason other that the
user requesting a pop up notification should appear.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794507
Title:
the user can hardly notice if a printer is offline [UI bug]
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