The application's print dialogs should access the CUPS asynchronously showing something like "Loading printer list ..." until they get the answer from the server and always with active "Cancel" button so that one can close the printing dialog at any time when CUPS does not answer.
Lars, can you implement this in the Common Printing Dialog? ** Tags added: cpd -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322931 Title: Print dialog hangs when print server is off -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
