Re: Printing packaging rework 2020
On Fri 31 Jan 2020 at 14:56:52 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 31/01/2020 14:03, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > That's perfectly correct. However, from my observations in user forums,
> > driverless does not have the visibility amongst users one would like or
> > expect. One reason is that the GTK print dialog deals badly with IPP
> > printers.
> >
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1509
> >
> > A second reason is that a change in cups-browsed.conf is needed for a
> > printer to show up in the GTK dialog and users are unaware of this. A
> > consequence of both these infelicities is that users immediately seek a
> > driver solution. OTOH, IPP printers are immediately enumerated in Qt
> > apps and LibreOffice without cups-browsed.
> >
>
> Great to hear that 2 of 3 print dialogs (Qt and LibreOffice work but GTK
> not) work with current CUPS and without need of cups-browsed.
A recent example of a user issue is at
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=310774&sid=89b370ffd59b83e26c047474efc97924
> Which change in the cups-browsed.conf is needed to make the GTK dialog
> display the printers correctly?
Uncomment "CreateIPPPrinterQueues All",
> I would change the defaults of cups-browsed appropriately.
Please see #921252
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921252
Regards,
Brian.
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