I would be willing to have a look and try to backport the patch I provided. However, at first I would like to have an explanation from the ubuntu maintainers why the few-lines-patch I provided, which enables easy duplex printing for many people (and so safe a lot of paper), has not been included.
Otherwise, I can only recommend to use a different distribution. There probably are some where maintainers can imagine that some users actually use their LTS distribution in a productive environment that want to print (duplex)... (Btw, I fully agree that a patch that would resolve more of the issues would be very nice. However such patch would require huge changes in the code which certainly will never be accepted...Let us better at least hope to fix the most annoying issue.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to qtbase-opensource-src in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776173 Title: qt print dialog shipped with bionic ignores printer defaults Status in qtbase-opensource-src package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: All kde applications shipped with ubuntu and particularly kubuntu bionic print via the qt print dialog, that, unfortunately, does not seem to respect the defaults set for the printer. Specifically, every time one starts to print the "duplex" option gets reset to "none" even for those printers that were configured for "long edge" duplex by default. This may lead to a huge *waste of paper*: people print, expecting the duplex, do not get it, throw away the printout and reprint, for a total of 3 times the paper usage if the print dialog respected the default. See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395150 As a final comment and in general, I think that Bionic should be updated to use the QT 5.11 print subsystem (from 5.9.5) as soon as possible (at least via a kubuntu ppa). The QT 5 print dialog has always been extremely poor, with no possibility to provide information about things like print quality and resolution, paper type, stapling (for printers supporting it), etc. Now, QT 5.11 has finally a better print dialog and it would be great if the bionic users could use it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: libqt5widgets5 5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Jun 11 10:23:53 2018 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-12 (1641 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: qtbase-opensource-src UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-06-08 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1776173/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
