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** Also affects: common-print-dialog-gtk
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: common-print-dialog-gtk
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  cups printer instances not usable from gtk applications

Status in Common Print Dialog:
  New
Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  New
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2009-02/msg05856.html)
  bug on suse summarizes the problem.

  I have once filed a bug upstream
  (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582747) which never got any
  attention.

  My suggested workaround in the upstream bug would at least prevent one
  bad effect the bug is having if you define cups "instances" in your
  /etc/cups/lpoptions or ~/.cups/lpoptions - either using old kde 3.5
  print configuration dialog or "lpoptions" command line.

  Read the loptions man page to learn about cups "instances". They are
  really useful. If anybody knows an alternative I'd be happy to learn
  about it as well. Multiple "queues" (printers) for the same "device
  URL" are not an alternative, as at least /usr/share/system-config-
  printer/system-config-printer.py (System->Administration->Printing)
  doesn't seem to allow setting up multiple printers with the same
  device file due to a cups error (client-error-not-possible) occurring
  if you try (at least for the cnij_usb: backend I'm using).

  If the cups instances are here to stay and somebody gave me some tips
  on how to get my code accepted by upstream I'd maybe take some effort
  to implement instances in the gtk libprintbackend-cups library.

  But there is some other printing dialog efforts going on. E.g. "Common
  Printing Dialog" (https://wiki.edubuntu.org/CommonPrintingDialog) On
  this
  (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/OpenPrinting_Summit_San_Francisco_2009)
  page you find some nice slides
  (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/images/4/4d/CommonPrintingDialogLF09.pdf)
  about it. Does anybody know if there are any useable results from this
  project yet ?

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 22 13:57:49 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=C
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: gtk+2.0
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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