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Hello
I tried to work with the new Gutsy GUI tools for setting up printers,
and they make the task very hard.
There is the CUPS web which is not enabled by deafult and from what I
have heared it is not supported in Ubuntu. This is pretty much OK.
However, the GUI tools are a nightmare.
There is a user tool for setting the default printer, and this is all.
Fist this tool is very unintuitive as it shows a list of printers, and
theone that was selecetd when the tool was started is the default one.
There is no obvious way to tell whic one it is other by restarting the
tool.
Second, there is no way to set default printer settings for the user.
Like paper size, resolution, etc. And start/stop jobs.
Perhaps the icon in the system tray is for accessing the print job queue
but there is only one icon. Does it contain documents for all printer,
or would multiple icons apper, or what? And why there can't be an icon
in settings?
Also it is not possible to remove jobs when the printer is stopped.
Well, I am not sure it's actually stopped. The UI in printer management
says Enabled, and the check box is empty. When I enable the printer it
is possible to remove my job then.
The admin interface (System-config-printer) is also a nightmare. It
allows some settings but it does not display them in realtime. This is
particualrly bad for the "enabled" state which can change behind its
back when the printer is error-policy:stop which is needed for printers
with Epson-style stateful language. They would print garbage after an
error.
The design of the admin interface is innovative but it brings in quite a
few problems that the standard interface with printer icons and context
menus solves nicely. It can display and change the "Started/stopped"
state in realtime, and for details a special dialog exists that can be
displayed when needed. Of course, as the dialog displays the state of
the printer when it was invoked, and the user invokes the dialog when
interested in the printer state ti usually works out quite well.
In the new interface the dialog shows the state of all printers when the
tool was started which makes it quite hard to use. You have to exit and
restart the tool completely before every use.
A long standing issue is that gs filters for old printers keep running
after a printer error, and even after the job is removed using the
UI/CUPS. The only way to restore the printer to a usable state is
1) turn off the printer
2) stop all jobs and remove the current job
3) kill all processes belonging to the user "lp", especially the process named
"parallel" or "gs" as these would continue feeding garbage to the printer.
4) turn on printer, reenable, reprint
** Affects: libgnomecups (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
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setting up printers is hard
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238635
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