GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 738431
Large printers list in print dialog
Last modified: 2018-04-15 00:26:38 UTC
Print dialog show all printers discovered by Avahi, this is a good idea for home usage but very bad idea for large office with many printers, I think this functionality should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1379359
A setting for this would be conceivable, but we should probably think about ways to make this 'self-regulating' in the UI - only show previously used printers, and have a 'more' button ?
This would definitely improve the usability of the print dialog. Having hundreds of printers listed -- some of them in different time zones -- is not friendly. Also, yes, making this self-regulating would be very nice. So, a suggestion: * Make each printer have an attached score, a double. 0 is the default. * Anytime you print to a printer, that printer's score is increased by 1. * Before the print dialog is shown, each printer's score is subjected to a 1-month half-life decay. That's a daily factor of 0.977 * Any score that dips below 0.5 gets rounded down to 0. * At first only active (score>0) printers get shown and shown in order of score. The rest are shown when "More" is pressed. * However, if there are less than (say) five printers in total they are all shown right away. This helps the home situation where a new printer has just been connected. That requires one number per active printer plus one date for when the score was last computed. Not a lot. A printer used once will drop off the list after 1 month. A printer used 64 times will take half a year.
*** Bug 755512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Wouldn't it be better to take the printers that were configured previously from gnome-control-center as the preferred ones over all the rest? At least, I expect to use much more often that printer that I have actively configured there than any other random printer Thanks
(In reply to RoMan from comment #0) > Print dialog show all printers discovered by Avahi, this is a good idea for > home usage but very bad idea for large office with many printers, I think > this functionality should be configurable > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1379359 (In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #1) > A setting for this would be conceivable, but we should probably think about > ways to make this 'self-regulating' in the UI - only show previously used > printers, and have a 'more' button ? +100500 Very uncomfortable in a large office. Take it out in the 'self-regulating' in the UI.
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