Closed Bug 259612 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Selected printer should be retained (File => Print => Printer)

Categories

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256680

People

(Reporter: jari.aalto, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3

There are two issues in Print dialog that could be improved:

First, make the system printer the default
second, if user selects a printer, keep that printer selected.

Currently the printing in inconvenient because for every page the
printer must be selected manually because the previously selected
choice is not retained in next printing.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select File => Print
2. Choose printer from drop-down menu
3. New printed is active. Print
4. Go to another web page
5. Select File => Print

Actual Results:  
Previously selected printer is not active (retained), it
must ve selected again from drop-down menu.

Expected Results:  
Selected printer is retained; is sticky
Assignee: aaronleventhal → firefox
Component: Accessibility → General
QA Contact: bugzilla → firefox.general
I think this should be moved to Core -> Printing: Xprint
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Assignee: firefox → katakai
Component: General → Printing: Xprint
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → roland.mainz
Version: unspecified → Trunk
I forgot to say that i've tested and is still present on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050115 Firefox/1.0+
not necessarily xprint
Assignee: katakai → printing
Component: Printing: Xprint → Printing
QA Contact: roland.mainz
and I'd like to add that, beside (optionally) retaining 'last used' (for current
session), there should be a control to select the default printer, and keep that
whatever happen till next user change (guess *everybody* printed at least once
on wrong queue after intalling xprint...)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256680 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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