[Gutsy] Printer applet no longer appears when you hide it

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

Steps to reproduce:

1. Print a document to the printer. The printer applet appears in the notification area.
2. Right-click on the printer icon in the notification area, and select 'Hide'.
3. Print another document to the printer.

Expected behavior:

The printer icon appears again as it happens in step #1.

Actual behavior:

The printer icon no longer appears any more. It is impossible to administer the document queue using the "Document print status" tool (which is shown when you click on the printer icon in notification area). And it is impossible to bring the printer icon again without logout & login again.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Could the change be backported to Gutsy?

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

system-config-printer (0.7.78+svn1740-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     o Subversion snapshot r1740
     o Do not require PNG format for desktop icons (LP: #152634)
     o Applet: Throttle the rate of checking for jobs or error messages when in
       start-up mode. This prevents the applet being a nuisance when a large
       number of CUPS administration operations are performed in a batch.
     o Be more tolerant on failures to obtain printer info from CUPS.
     o Better check for whether the CUPS server is local.
     o Better methods to find default printer.
     o Applet: Allow the tray icon to reappear on the next print job when the
       user has hidden the applet icon with right-click -> "Hide" (LP: #156816).
     o Applet: Hide icon automatically when print job ends (LP: #151360).
  * debian/patches/10_menu_entries.patch: Regenerated.

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:02:25 +0000

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

system-config-printer (0.7.78+svn1771-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     o Subversion snapshot r1771
     o Added support for setting up queues pointing to Mac OS X printers,
       detected with the dnssd CUPS backend.
     o Allow deleting of remote queues, so that queues pointing to Mac OS X
       printers can get deleted again.
     o Fixed handling of auto-detected IPP queues in the "New printer" wizard.
     o Fixed traceback when creating a raw queue.
     o Fixed "New Printer" notifications after they got broken by the icon
       hiding changes for LP: #151360 and LP: #156816.
     o For C/POSIX locale, show only English PPDs.
     o Include PPD language in driver description (LP: #161037).
     o If there are no jobs but there is a printer warning/error indicated
       by the tray icon, set the icon tooltip to the reason description.
     o In the printer status window fix columns so that the full printer name
       can be seen.
     o Set printer icon in "Connect" dialog.
     o Set AboutDialog logo by icon name, set URL and email hooks, set icon
       (LP: #165101).
     o In the printer status window set Ctrl+R accelerator for Refresh menu
       entry (LP: #137984).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:40:08 +0000