Feature changed by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #311010, revision 3 Title: printer-enabled indicator openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: T lefering (twlevo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: with yast->printer->edit there is at bottom of that window a little box "Enable Printing" which must be activated to print. When it is not activated and with browser print-page is done there is no indication the printer is not-configured to print. no popup screen or other warning. hplip hp-printing software also has no indication and may use very high cpu even then. some indicator would be nice when trying to print to a configured printer but not set enabled to print yet. also the 11.4 upgrades with 'zypper up' often turn off the printer somehow. Discussion: #1: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m) (2010-12-26 12:02:27) In general status of services should be clearly presented to computer users to avoid frustration when something works different then expected. In this particular description is not clear to me that is not buggy behavior. It could be just problem within printer driver, or something like that. + #2: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2011-08-16 12:26:53) + By default print queues are enabled. In particular when a new print + queue is set up with one of the printer setup tools, the queue gets + enabled. A print queue becomes disabled when an error had happened, see + "What is a CUPS backend and how does it work?" at + http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Applications can query + the print queue state from CUPS so that print dialogs in applications + can show the queue state to the user. When some applications fail to do + this, please file separated feature requests or bug reports for the + particular applications - preferably directly to the matching upstream + projects. + From my point of view a separated "printer-enabled indicator" tool does + not make much sense because the print dialogs in the applications + should provide this information. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311010