GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170673
empty paper/complex tabs with IPP printers
Last modified: 2009-04-30 05:38:32 UTC
Please describe the problem: I'm using a remote IPP printer which is automatically configured via CUPS browsing (i. e. local /etc/cups/printers.conf is essentially empty). With libgnomecups 0.1.14 everything worked fine, but with 0.2.0 g-cups-manager has empty "paper" and "complex" tabs. I strongly suspect that this regression is due to the speed optimizations introduced in 0.2, so the PPD file is not requested from the server any more (just guessing). Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure remote IPP printer 2. Enable CUPS browsing 3. Wait for the printer to appear locally 4. open g-c-m, select "paper" or "complex" tab Actual results: empty tab Expected results: show properties like it did with libgnomecups 0.1.4. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
I confirm this bug. This is very annoying when using ipp printers: only the default options can be used.
I confirm this bug too - I experience it myself using ubuntu, and I created a ubuntu bugreport for this too (#52867). Attached is a patch that solves that problem for me.
Created attachment 69044 [details] [review] Use the printer_uri host when downloading ppd files
Hm.. My patchs lets the gnome cups administration too function correctly, but when printing from a gnome app, it still fails to download the ppd :-( I don't really understand how that can happen, since both are supposed to use libgnomecups. PS: Is anyone actually assigned to this bug? It's reported for _over_a_year_ (!) now, and still in state "UNCONFIRMED" - altough it a _major_ bug for people who use shared cups printers. This is frustrating.. :-(
libgnomecups is unmaintained at this point.
Moving all gnome-cups-manager bugs to new product. Filter on Kjartan's spring cleaning.
Let's close this, nobody uses g-c-m any more, and it's unmaintained.