[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 355005] New: no notification on printing failure

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355005

            Bug ID: 355005
           Summary: no notification on printing failure
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: printing
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: jrollins at finestructure.net

The Debian package of okular will silently fail to print if the cups-bsd
package is not installed.  The only indication that there is something wrong is
the following the terminal output if okular was opened from a terminal:

usage: lpr [-cdfghlmnpqrstv] [-#num] [-1234 font] [-C class] [-i [numcols]]
        [-J job] [-Pprinter] [-T title] [-U user] [-wnum] [name ...]

If okular was not opened from the terminal it just silently fails to print,
with absolutely no notification to the user that anything is amiss.  This is
incredibly aggravating if the printer is somewhere far away.

It would be great if okular could display a notification to the user of these
printer failures.  Okular should be able to figure out that the correct
dependencies are not installed, and notify the user that printing will not be
possible until they are.  This would alleviate a lot of aggravation on the part
of the users who don't have the necessary packages installed.

Thanks so much.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a document in okular
2. attempt to print
3.

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