GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 173072
gnome-print Not Showing Currently Defaulted Printer
Last modified: 2005-09-19 18:09:31 UTC
We are using gnome-print as part of Evolution on NLD. Evolution stores the last selected printer and makes use of it, however the UI doesn't reflect the last printer you selected or used. Upon return into gnome-printer if a printer is the 'default' it should be highlighted to give the users a visual signal that they don't have to select it again. Ideally, the grid should scroll to the highlighted position so they can see their printer is really selected without having to scroll down to check.
I see the same problem under Fedora Core 4 (i686). Problem occurs in Evolution, Evince, and Gnumeric. Default printer selection is always "Generic Postscript" Problem occurs with current CVS as well as current RedHat libgnomecups-0.2.0-2.
Here comes a stupid question, sorry! How can one choose the default printer? I've applied the patch. My laser is default both for CUPS and lpr (I know, it's CUPS handling lpr, so they're the same), as well as in Desktop/Administration/Printing. Yet, GENERIC_POSTSCRIPT comes preselected in the dialog. I've chosen my laser in the dialog and printed to it, to see if it comes up default next time. It doesn't. I've searched in the gconf keys, and the only candidates I've found are /apps/gnumeric/printing/printer and /apps/gnumeric/printing/printersetup/printer-config. Both come with the admonishment: "Do not edit this variable".
Sorry, I somehow applied the previous comment to the wrong bug report. *And* I complained about the patch not working, when I was supposed to apply two patches.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155144 ***