[Bug 149226] New: - Should at least give some examples when asking for a CUPS URI

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149226
gnome-print | gnome-cups-manager | Ver: unspecified

           Summary: Should at least give some examples when asking for a
                    CUPS URI
           Product: gnome-print
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gnome-cups-manager
        AssignedTo: jody@gnome.org
        ReportedBy: seb128@debian.org
                CC: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org


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"

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