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[Ivan Baldo <ibaldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also, I don't understand why when you double click on a printer instead
of going to that printer queue it goes to the printer preferences... 98%
of the time the user wants to see the queue and cancel jobs, not
reconfigure de printer...

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Title:
  Ubuntu's printing queue is not user friendly

Status in System Config Printer:
  New
Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: system-config-printer-gnome

  The printing queue can make simple user's live quite hard for the
  following reasons:

  - It seems you can only delete one job at a time. If for some reason 400 wrong jobs were started, happy clicking.
  - You cannot delete jobs with the keyboard and need at least two clicks per job,
  - Command names are somewhat ambiguous. I have "Delete" and "Abort" for each job and they seem to do exactly the same thing.

  I propose the following solution:
  - We could make it possible to select multiple jobs so that you can delete them at once.
  - We could register a handler on the Del key to trigger job deletion.
  - We could remove one of the ambiguous entries in case they are equivalent.

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