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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