GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 158362
unable to change printer name
Last modified: 2009-02-26 23:11:42 UTC
This bug has been reported here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/1265 "The GNOME print wizard setup a PostScript printer with a generic name, but when I change the name within the printer properties dialog, it doesn't stick. Immediately viewing the printer properties in the same dialog shows the old printer name."
There are some improvements in cvs but this still needs work.
Worse: Any changes you make in the 'connection' tab are ignored, i.e., reset to their previous value upon leaving the dialog. The only way I found to change from LPD to JetDirect printing was to remove the printer alltogether and start from scratch. gnome-cups-manager v0.28 Could somebody please change the Summary field of this bug to broaden the scope accordingly? (E.g., by appending " / connection".)
Testing with new Gnome 2.10 packages, I've seen that the real problem may be that the name of printer can't be specified while printer creation. This feature is available through CUPS admin web interface, however. So I think it may be easy to add this feature to GNOME print wizard, during printer creation.
After some research I've concluded that cups does not support changing a printer's name. cupsd does not implement the ipp calls, the web ui does not support editing. The core of the problem is that the name is really an id, and it controls the url for the printer. We can use the description field as a 'display name' but there are complications when interacting with other print systems - some printer configurators do not set the description by default - some printing tools do not display the description so we can not rely on this kludge to work for OOo or firefox. A cheap solution is to add a 'select name' page to gnome-cups-add but that is cheesy.
Tracking this in Debian at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290888.
I'm not going to have time to work on this.
Well, at the very least make the description entry non-editable. Notice that not only the name is non editable but also the description appears editable but in fact isn't.
What information (NEEDINFO) is required on that bug?
There is also the related bug of default name for the printer : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156432 (just for information)
Looks like Ubuntu has a patch for this (the same patch was suggested for inclusion in Debian). https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-cups-manager/+bug/8023
Moving all gnome-cups-manager bugs to new product. Filter on Kjartan's spring cleaning.
This bug has been fixed for me for a long time and didn't had any activity for more than a year. I'm closing it as "fixed". Feel free to reopen it if needed.