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The main reason why Debian/Ubuntu does not enable automatic use of
network printers broadcasted by remote CUPS servers by default is that
there is no way to tell apart locally configured (and thus trusted)
printers from those which got advertized by remote CUPS servers (and
thus open the possibility of luring someone into printing confidential
material onto a rogue network printer).
E. g. I have a locally configured local_ps printer, and an ML-1610
configured on a remote server which appears through cups browsing
detection. The print dialog currently looks like this:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/screenshots/print_dialog_gtk.png
the printers look exactly the same, I have no way to tell which ones can
be considered trusted. It would be great to separate the locally
configured from the remotely detected ones:
|_| Print to file |
Locally configured printers:
|=| HP DeskJet 123| room 10 |
|=| Samsung Foo Color | |
Automatically detected remote printers:
|=| ML-1610 | dagobert |
Locally configured and automatically discovered remote printers can be
told apart with the CUPS_PRINTER_DISCOVERED flag (see cups/cups.h).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Printing#listing: whenever available printers
are listed, they should be listed in up to two sections: * Whenever at
least one manually configured printer is available, a section beginning
with an insensitive item, “Configured printers”. * Whenever at least one
broadcast printer is available, a section beginning with an insensitive
item, “Discovered printers”.
** Affects: gtk
Importance: Wishlist
Status: New
** Affects: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Affects: qt
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Triaged
** Affects: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Triaged
** Tags: pet-bug
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Please separate automatically discovered remote printers from locally
configured printers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314408
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