Integrated batch printing in Nautilus

[TM8471]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus should be enhanced with „batch printing“:

1) In nautilus: User selects several files by marking them with mouse pointer
2) On right-click nautilus should offer a menu item, e.g. something like that: „print selected files (batch-printing)“
3) Then nautilus should hand over all print jobs to another application, e.g. „system-config-printer“

4) „System-config-printer“ should now handle all print jobs.
5) „System-config-printer“ should now open all applications that are connected with the marked files (e.g.: *.odf-file with OpenOffice; *.pdf with Evince; txt-files with gettext; etc.)
6) The relevant should start a print job and should hand it over the print queue. After print data hand-over application should close themselves.

7) „System-config-printer“ should now open a user dialog: „All queued print jobs to default printer?“ [Yes] – [No] – [Customize print jobs]
8) If user selects [Customize print jobs], „System-config-printer“ should open a dialog, so that the user is able to decide which printer for which print job should be adressed (e.g. network printer, local printer).

On the one hand, the more I think about this feature, the more I realize that this is quite complex to realize in Ubuntu.
On the other hand, a batch queue printing pipeline in Nautilus is very useful and enhances office productivity very much.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 14 19:16:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

[TM8471 (p-maier-lutz)]

Affect system-config-printer, too

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nautilus has nothing to do with printing

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's a duplicate of bug 59702

[DR. VIMAL HURRY (vhurry200)]

Batch printing is an absolute must in Ubuntu.
We should be able to print all selected files at once.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.