Bug#214056: gnome-cups-manager: Try unsetting $PRINTER...

[Marc Wilson]

Package: gnome-cups-manager
Version: 0.30-2
Followup-For: Bug #214056

Does your environment set $PRINTER?  I've been poking at the version of
gnome-cups-manager currently in unstable for a while today, and noticed
that if $PRINTER was set, it would alter ~/.lpoptions, but wouldn't
change the default printer marker.

Stupid, but it's Gnome, so what do you expect?  Someone made a
*deliberate* design decision to do that... to deliberately be stupid and
actually change the default, but not to change the marker conditional on
the setting of an environment variable.

Of course, even though ~/.lpoptions is getting changed, libgnomeprint or
some other piece of this disaster is still failing to pick up what the
default printer is, despite CUPS itself knowing.  Applications are all
defaulting to the first printer in the list, no matter what the default
is actually set to.  Gnome applications, I should say.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.10.1-2       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.10.0-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.10.0-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10       1.1.23-11      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.10.1-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.5.1-2      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.6.6-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.4.3-1        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.10.2-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1         0.2.0-2        GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1       0.30-2         UI extensions to libgnomecups
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.10.1-5       The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.6.9-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.12.2-3     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.8.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.20-1       GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager recommends:
pn  gksu                          <none>     (no description available)

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