I think moving the step of entering the printer name should really be after the selection of the auto-detected printer and the selection of the driver. Before, the user does not know which printers are available and often the user gives a name depending on type and model of the printer. It is also much easier to implement a reasonable suggestion for a print queue name if it is asked for the print queue name after having determined the model and driver. So I think the most important UI improvement at all for s-c-p is to move the step of entering the queue name to be the last step of the wizard.
For the waiting time for reading the PPDs and scanning for printers my suggestion is to run these two threads already when opening the main window so that until the user clicks "Add Printer" good part of the work is already done. When having clicked "Add Printer" and PPD reading and printer detection do not have completed, a decent "Please wait" page or pop-up should appear before as first wizard step the list of available printers is shown (here printer detection can in general be done before PPD reading, so that the printer list can be shown while the PPDs are still not finished and can make progress while the user is selecting from the auto-detected printers). The second step will then be the selection of the driver and the third will be entering the queue name. -- Bad UI https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132227 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
