GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 692931
The list of printers should be searchable/sortable
Last modified: 2014-01-27 15:42:53 UTC
With the current GTK dialog (as in 3.6.4). Users, working on a lan with many printers, report that it's difficult for them to find the printer they want to use because GTK provide no way to search/filter/sort the list of printers. Typeahead is working, but it's not really obvious (so some users don't know about it) and only works on the printer names, not on their location. Some possible improvements: - providing a way to search/filter in the list, taking into account names and locations - make the columns sortable, that would allow users to, at least, sort by location - sort the most used printers always first
Created attachment 235950 [details] [review] Quick fix that enables type-ahead search for printer locations We enable type-ahead search for printers by location since this is an easy fix until a better solution is found. For example, if a user is searching for a printer named "Brother 123" at location "Room 456", the printer could be selected by type-ahead searching for "123 456", or something similar.
Created attachment 264548 [details] [review] Enable search through locations in printers list Hi, I agree with the extending of searching to location column. I've modified the William's patch to have it little more simple. I used space and tabulator as delimiters. Regards Marek
This patch looks good to me. Is there any reason it hasn't been committed yet?
Review of attachment 264548 [details] [review]: Looks fine to me too
Comment on attachment 264548 [details] [review] Enable search through locations in printers list (In reply to comment #4) > Review of attachment 264548 [details] [review]: > > Looks fine to me too Thank you for the review. I've pushed the patch to master.