1662786 - No longer have the ability to cancel or monitor print progress (Implement some sort of print queue user interface)

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Printing, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Since we're not using the print progress dialog with the new print UI, users have (temporarly) lost the ability to cancel their print jobs, monitor their progress or be notified of any errors.

Perhaps we could have something like the downloads button and its expanding list for active print jobs. It would list all active jobs, their progress, whether an error occurred, and allow the user to cancel them.

Or something completely different, as long as it provides the above useful functionality...

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Setting [print2020_v81] for now to put this on the radar for go/no-go decission making.

Comment 2

[Bob Owen (:bobowen) PTO until 8th Oct]

At least on Windows beta still seems to have the progress dialog, for the old and the new UI.
Hmm it seems to have reappeared on Nightly as well.

Comment 3

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

The progress dialog was hidden by bug 1653319 but shown again in bug 1659624. This was because the settings.showPrintProgress = false flag was copied over from PringingChild.jsm, which before the frame loader API was only affecting print previews and with the move to print.js was now affecting previews and the actual print. It was re-enabled as a stopgap for 81.

fwiw, Chrome and Edge don't seem to show any progress dialog (on Windows anyway). I would guess this is because the print job will appear in the system printer queue.

Since the user can manage active prints from their system print queue this might not be needed. (ie always hide the progress dialog and don't replace it)

Comment 4

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

(Moving bugs to 86, part 1.)