Bug#353327: specifying printer connections is painful
Bas Zoetekouw
bas at debian.org
Fri Feb 17 14:40:32 UTC 2006
Package: gnome-cups-manager
Version: 0.31-1.1
Severity: normal
Selecting printer connection URI's for network printers is pretty
painful in gnome-cups-manager. Apparently, for a remote cups printer
(in the Properties/Connection tab), it want me to input something like
"http://printserver:631/printers/spinhp". However, there's no
indication of the format the URI should be in, nor a help page
describing what exactly should be entered.
Furthermore, ordinary users can't be expected to know uri's like this:
there should be a "scan for print servers" options (plus the
possibility to enter a print server manually), and an option to scan
for printers on the host, so that the user will simply be able to
choose from a list.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-15 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-9 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.6-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.12.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.2-1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-1.1 UI extensions to libgnomecups
ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.12.2-6 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager recommends:
ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su
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