Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-cups-manager
When the user chooses "System"/"Administration"/"Printing" a tool which is unmaintained for more than a year (gnome-cups-manager) shows up, whereas under Fedora Linux an actively maintained tool appears (system- config-printer). Upstream maintainer of system-config-printer is Tim Waugh, printing guru from Red Hat and he is not only actively developing this tool but he also supports the tool being adopted by other distributions, for example he monitors the bug reports on system-config-printer here on the Launchpad. He has accepted most of my patches and has given me write access to the upstream SVN repository. system-config-printer was difficult to use for newbies at some places and it was only be usable when run as root, but I have done several improvements on it and except that existing print queues are not shown as icons the principal usability problems should be solved now. Now it is even easier and more correct than gnome-cups-manager in some points. Here some important features (which are improvements against gnome-cups-manager): - Auto-setup of print queues when plugging a printer (together with hal-cups-utils), fixes https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/automatic-printer-conf - If the tool is run by a user in the lpadmin group printer option settings are saved system-wide (in /etc/cups/printers.conf and /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd) and not in the personal configuration file ~/.cups/lpoptions). This was a problem of gnome-cups-manager which has led to a lot of bug reports. - If the add-printer wizard detects a printer and it is supported by HPLIP, only the entries for HPLIP-enabled setup appear in the list of auto-detected printers. - HPLIP support is also checked for manually entered network printers. - Improved auto-selection of PPDs. PostScript printers get assigned the manufacturer supplied PostScript PPDs now (gnome-cups-manager did not always default to the right PPD). Also important is that with system-config-printer bugs get more easily fixed due to the upstream maintainership. Having a tool with bugs is also a usability problem. ** Affects: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: Confirmed ** Affects: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: Confirmed ** Changed in: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High Status: New => Confirmed Target: None => tribe-5 ** Also affects: system-config-printer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Replace gnome-cups-manager by system-config-printer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130903 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
