tested on final Dapper. There are still three issues with this UI if we
are shooting for being ultra user-friendly:

1) 127.0.0 is the default entry for a network printer scan, obviously no
network printer could be connected to that subnet. The app should
automagically pull the current subnet and use that as the default entry.
I doubt most people have any idea what a subnet is (see #2)

2) The box for entering a subnet is too small to see the entire subnet
and while there is basic data validation, the error message is useless.
A better approach would force an entry into a proper subnet, perhaps by
breaking the field into three fields and modifiying the validation error
message to say something like "Invalid subnet address.  Valid subnet
addresses are in this format: x.y.y where x is a number between 1 and
255 and y is a number between 0 and 255. For example, 192.168.0 or
10.0.0.  Typical subnets for home networks are 192.168.0 or 192.168.1"

Thinking about it more, it doesn't seem to make sense to require manual
entry of the subnet at all. If the subnet can't be detected there is
something wrong with the network and the scan will fail anyway.

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Kubuntu Add printer wizard - network printer scan gives incorrect warning 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/36797

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