GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 149226
Should at least give some examples when asking for a CUPS URI
Last modified: 2008-01-29 13:10:18 UTC
This bug has been reported in the Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/232449 "'m trying to configure a CUPS remote printer using the nice druid of gnome-cups-manager. However, I'm quite puzzled at the request of the URI for the printer. I do not recall the exact syntax for IPP URIs, and I remember that the web-based lpadmin interface provided a list of examples with reasonable defaults to show it. Ideally, the program should allow for some easy construction of the uri, like asking for the server name then browsing printers, if possible. The while point of a graphical interface should be not needing to remember things or at least not needing to remember rarely used syntaxes. However, without implementing printer browsing or such, it would greatly help just adding some URI examples in that druid page. The ones from the CUPS admin web interface, for example, are: file:/path/to/filename.prn http://hostname:631/ipp/ http://hostname:631/ipp/port1 ipp://hostname/ipp/ ipp://hostname/ipp/port1 lpd://hostname/queue socket://hostname socket://hostname:9100"
Good idea. I've added that list as a tooltip
I think only tooltip is not enough for simple user. Please add examples bellow URI - there are unused space in network printer add dialog. Btw, it would be nice to see tooltips not only in IPP, but also in other types of network printers - JetDirect, LPD, etc.
Moving all gnome-cups-manager bugs to new product. Filter on Kjartan's spring cleaning.