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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) has assigned this bug to you for qt4-x11 in Ubuntu:

The main reason why Debian/Ubuntu does not enable automatic use of
network printers broadcasted by remote CUPS servers by default is that
there is no way to tell apart locally configured (and thus trusted)
printers from those which got advertized by remote CUPS servers (and
thus open the possibility of luring someone into printing confidential
material onto a rogue network printer).

E. g. I have a locally configured "local_ps" printer, and an ML-1610
configured on a remote server which appears through cups browsing
detection. The print dialog currently looks like this:

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/screenshots/print_dialog_gtk.png

the printers look exactly the same, I have no way to tell which ones can
be considered trusted. It would be great to separate the locally
configured from the remotely detected ones:

  |_| Print to file     |
  Locally configured printers:
  |=| HP DeskJet 123    | room 10  |
  |=| Samsung Foo Color |          |
  Automatically detected remote printers:
  |=| ML-1610           | dagobert |

Locally configured and automatically discovered remote printers can be
told apart with the CUPS_PRINTER_DISCOVERED flag (see cups/cups.h).

** Affects: gtk
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New

** Affects: hundredpapercuts
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Paper Cuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: qt
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
     Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: pet-bug
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Please separate automatically discovered remote printers from locally configured printers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314408
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