Bug#489765: libgtk2.0-0: does not allow lpr printing through Iceweasel 3

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Mon Jul 7 19:31:20 UTC 2008


Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:31 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
>> Iceweasel 3 cannot print when using lprng; only when using CUPS.  > 

> Does setting:
> 
> gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups"
> 
> In ~/.gtkrc-2.0 solve things for you?

Well, yes, it did! Thanks very much!

But having to do this (while it was not necessary before) is a
surprise to the users -- therefore a bug. Some program should do
this automatically in its install procedure -- or prompt the user
to accept this. But which program? Iceweasel3? Or libgtk2.0-0?

Regards, Jan










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