And I think that the conclusion is the following:
- The KDE print dialog bypasses cups-browsed to list the driverless
network printers, if cups-browsed is not running. In this case it fails
to gather some information such as the "type" of the printer, though.
- For the KDE print dialog not to show the driverless printers one needs
the cups-browsed.conf file to explicitly contain the
'BrowseRemoteProtocols none' entry and must be made *readable* by
everyone, plus a desktop restart seems to be needed
- lpstat -e always shows the driverless network printers regardless of
whether the cups-browsed is active or the BrowseRemoteProtocols none is
selected.
- the firefox print dialog keeps showing /some/ (but not all) of the
driverless network printers shown by lpstat -e and so does the gimp one
and inkscape (dont't think that I have many other apps to test that do
not use the kde print dialog)
The firefox print dialog gets some weird names for some of the network
printers ("print" "printer"), and shows "rejecting jobs" for them.
All this bypassing of cups-browsed does not seem very proper to me.
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Regression, poor user experience, print dialogs garbled by
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