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Message #105913
[Bug 458116] Re: cups printer instances not usable from gtk applications
** Changed in: gtk
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458116
Title:
cups printer instances not usable from gtk applications
Status in Common Print Dialog:
New
Status in GTK+:
Fix Released
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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