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Bug 311438 - Printers in g-c-m should be visible in nautilus 'Computer' folder
Printers in g-c-m should be visible in nautilus 'Computer' folder
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-cups-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gnome-cups-manager
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-24 23:42 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2008-02-08 20:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Reinout van Schouwen 2005-07-24 23:42:03 UTC 
It seems like every auxiliary device (removable drives, USB keys, etc.) gets
listed in the Computer folder except for printers. It is inconsistent to not put
connected printers there, too. Instead g-c-m pretends to be its own semi-folder,
but it requires launching a separate application.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-11-07 10:21:45 UTC 
Updating GNOME version, cc'ing nautilus maintainers.
Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2005-11-08 08:19:08 UTC 
No, only storage devices are meant to be shown in Computer, and in fact anywhere
in Nautilus.
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-11-08 10:41:43 UTC 
Printers could be seen as (analog) storage devices :-)

Regardless, these implementation details are unimportant to the user. Displaying
an USB stick in Computer but not displaying a USB printer there is just plain
inconsistent.
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2005-11-09 16:44:35 UTC 
Implementation details? There is nothing implementation-depenedent about this
decision. Its just to avoid strange inconsistancies that we have decided on this
policy. A printer is not a file, treating it like one in the UI leads to all
sorts of edge cases and inconsistencies.
Comment 5 Kjartan Maraas 2008-01-29 13:10:43 UTC 
Moving all gnome-cups-manager bugs to new product. Filter on Kjartan's spring cleaning.
Comment 6 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2008-02-08 20:49:01 UTC 
As expressed in bug 406661, I'd rather change the name of the computer:// place than extend its concept to suit more Windows style. Nautilus deals with files and does this very well, printers have a very different behavior, and should be left to special tools, not bothering the file management. Not speaking of variations between distributions (Fedora and Ubuntu use system-config-printer which doesn't look like a folder at all).