Bug#280718: gnome-cups-manager: floods central cups printer server with requests

[Meik Hellmund]

Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com> writes:

> Current gnome-cups-manager needs to poll the CUPS server as there is no
> other way of obtaining the job information.
OK, but is there a way to configure which printers are asked? Most users want
only to see the status of the printer in their room, not all ca. 30 printers
in our cups network, which seems to be the default. 
(A general option: "poll only the default printer for this user" would be
nice.)
  

>
> One semi-solution for the central server use-case is to install a local
> cupsd on each machine, which simply forwards the jobs.  This way the
> local machines take the hit of the polling.

There is a cupsd running on each machine. But it seems to forward the polling
to the cupsd which really servers the printer. 

Many thanks for sharing your insights!

Meik