[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 144149] kjobviewer should show the number of jobs in the system tray

[John Layt]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144149


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--- Comment #3 from John Layt <john layt net>  2009-01-02 17:11:55 ---
KDEPrint in KDE3 is unmaintained and will have no more new features
implemented.  This request will never be implemented in KDEPrint as a result.  

In KDE4 kjobviewer has been replaced by printer-applet which uses
system-config-printer as a backend.  

Nice idea, but I don't think this could be implemented in a reliable fashion. 
While the printers PPD does provide a simplex Throughput value in
pages-per-minute it is not guaranteed to be present or accurate (my 22ppm
printer has a value of 1).  More problematic is that CUPS often doesn't know
how many pages are in a print job if the application hasn't set this correctly
in the print file, the only reliable info CUPS has is the job size in bytes
(see other bug reports regarding pages in print jobs).  Consequently I suspect
most jobs would not be able to have a value calculated making the feature next
to useless.

Closing.


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