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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to design a solution to this, but there are too many unanswered
questions at the moment.

1. What did Martin Pitt mean by "one of the next cycles"? Did he mean 12.04 LTS, and if not, should the problem be fixed in system-config-printer?
2. Does the problem also occur in gnome-control-center? If so, could someone please attach a screencast of it occurring?
3. Till's question to Martin: Is Jockey doing anything else other than asking OpenPrinting for the driver?
4. Is the a OpenPrinting interaction a single HTTP request, or is it more complicated? (If it is more complicated, progress can be shown more granularly.)

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Title:
  Add printer takes too long (users cancel before completing)

Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Watching a new user install a Network printer takes too long.  A
  progress bar is shown, and continues to beat back and forth, but the
  operation takes so long that the user ends up cancelling the process.

  One month early I watched another user do precisely the same
  cancellation at the same point while adding the same network printer
  on the same network.

  Ideally the progress could be changed from a bouncing bar, to a
  progressing bar.  This would give a sense of competition, that is
  lacking in the bouncing bar.

  It would probably even be tolerable to have a completion bar that
  times at the end.  This would replace an unknown with a known.

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