https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498854
Bug ID: 498854
Summary: Print dialog takes over 10 seconds to show up on a
powerful PC without printers
Classification: Plasma
Product: xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Version: 6.2.5
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: bizy...@pm.me
CC: aleix...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The print dialog used by the portal takes an unrealistic amount of time to
appear on the screen after invoking it from a printing-capable application. I
can reproduce this both on a powerful workstation with openSUSE Tumbleweed and
on a virtual machine with Fedora KDE 41. In both cases, it takes a similar
amount of time to load.
I don't know if it loads faster on machines with physical printers connected.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start a VM or a PC without connected printers.
2. Open a PDF file with https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Evince
3. Print it using Evince
OBSERVED RESULT
After clicking the "Print" button or pressing Ctrl+P, around 12 seconds passes
before the print dialog appears. During this time, there is no indication that
something is still happening.
EXPECTED RESULT
The print dialog appears almost instantly, and if it really has to do some
work, it happens when the dialog is already visible.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250116
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.9-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This problem is not specific to the portal, and I can reproduce it with a
non-sandboxed version of Okular (note that Okular's Flatpak also does not use
the portal for printing). However, I could not find a Bugzilla component for
the dialog itself. Even if it is provided by Qt, something tells me that only
KDE developers will get to fixing it there. But this issue is especially
important within the context of xdg-desktop-portal-kde because even non-Qt apps
will have to rely on this implementation in the Flatpak world.
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