Print-manager from Plasma Applications (20.08.0) is not installed by default when I install a printer with task-printing with Plasma session. End-user can't have a systray icon to manage his printing work. But this is provided upstream by this package. Therefore, I know system-config-printer is GUI to set up a printer in MCC. But, to be more user-friendly, we must ship print-manager package with Plasma when a printer is installed. Mageia 7 also affected.
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOO
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Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Tested case: 1) Freshly installed Mageia Cauldron Plasma version. 2) Add a printer via MCC. This installs task-printing and task-printing-hp. 3) Print a document to recently added printer with what you want application. 4) Document starts to be printed. No feedback on GUI of printing. Plasma is not handled and there is no printer tray information when printing a document to printer, contrary to other distribution like KDE Neon, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE. In facts, print-manager-20.08.1-1.mga8 is not installed. I think we could handle this situation by adding a script that detects current desktop environment (see $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP) and should install correct printer tray or current desktop tools for printing.
Severity: normal => major
Rationale to this bug: If printing has an error: no paper supplies, printer's inks has too low level or offline printer, there is no feedback on GUI to inform user. This is a lack of functionality.
Blocks: (none) => 17523
For this bug: MCC installs task-printer-server when first click on "Set printer" in hardware section of MCC. What about that script should run a query in env variable: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE and finally propose to install also packages from print-manager-20.08.3-1.mga8.src.rpm Note also for other DE that there is system-config-printer-applet RPM. Why even this is not installed when installing system-config-printer ?
Source RPM: print-manager-20.08.0-1.mga8.src.rpm => print-manager-20.08.3-1.mga8.src.rpm
Ping?
Priority: Normal => HighKeywords: Triaged => (none)Source RPM: print-manager-20.08.3-1.mga8.src.rpm => print-manager-20.12.0-1.mga8.src.rpm
@Nicolas, you had took look about that. Print-manager is not installed with selecting "Plasma" in Classic ISO installation. It is not installed, nor cups. A desktop without printer is not a desktop. I know some wants the minimal footprint to their systems but this is too far, not user-friendly Out-of-the-box. Also, someone can tell me to go to MCC, Hardware, Set printer and gurpmi installs all that is necessary... but not printer-manager (for Plasma) as there will be no systray applet for user to manage print jobs. So, # urpmi print-manager pulls correctly cups server. But, it is not enabled/started afterwards. User will get : "Print service unavailable. Bad file descriptor" Which is obvious... In system log: systemsettings5[3521]: libkcups: IPP_INTERNAL_ERROR: clearing cookies and reconnecting systemsettings5[3521]: libkcups: Failed to reconnect Argument invalide