Re: [Usability] Integration and Standardisation of Notification area and behaviour

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 15:37 -0400, Jacob Beauregard wrote:

> I know it says early thoughts, but what about the case of having a long print 
> queue to get through? I haven't really ever seen a network printer signal 
> anything back to my computer when it's finally handling the job, don't know 
> if it's possible in all cases, but it would be nice. That could be 
> generalized into any activity that the user has no control over when a job is 
> handled or has been completed.

Good suggestion... in fact, the print infrastructure we're working on
for OpenSolaris at the moment is going to be able to do that.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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