513927 - Duplex Printing on OpenSuse Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 358393

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[brad.mcneely]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.23 (20090812)

I'm running OpenSuse 10.3 and use Firefox and Thunderbird.  On the Firefox print dialog box I do get an option to do duplex printing but not on the Thunderbird print dialog box.  Can we get duplex options put on the Thunderbird dialog box on Linux?  This seems to be specific to Linux.  On my Mac I do have duplex options in Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch Thunderbird
2.Select a message to print and press CTRL-P
3.Click the Properties button

Actual Results:  
Duplex option missing

Expected Results:  
Would like to see an option for duplex printing

Comment 1

[brad.mcneely]

Attachment: Firefox Linux print dialog box has duplex options

Comment 2

[brad.mcneely]

Attachment: Thunrderbird Linux print dialog does not have duplex options

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

You are comparing non comaparble products. How does it look when you use Thunderbird 3.0b3 ?

Comment 4

[brad.mcneely]

I'm assuming that's a beta version.  When I go here
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
the latest version that is generally available is 2.0.0.23.  Are you saying that this will be/has been addressed in Thunderbird 3?  If so, when is is planed for general availability?

Comment 5

[rsx11m]

The TB 3.0b3 print options menu for Linux (with Cups) has the "Two-Sided" option, it's just blanked out on my machine as I don't have a duplex printer.

Release candidates for 3.0 are scheduled for November.

Comment 7

[brad.mcneely]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The TB 3.0b3 print options menu for Linux (with Cups) has the "Two-Sided"
> option, it's just blanked out on my machine as I don't have a duplex printer.
> 
> Release candidates for 3.0 are scheduled for November.

Sounds good.  Thanks very much.