[Bug 68256] Re: kde: Openoffice doesn't see remote cups printers, just generic printer

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 10:47:03 UTC 2007


Probably default configurations were simply left how Debian made them.

What I did when I was at Mandriva was enabling Browsing for remote
printers and Broadcasting local printers by default. So the users of
small network simply set up a printer on an arbitrary machine and have
it available on all machines. So the configuration works out of the box
for unexperienced users.

In bigger networks where one wants to select which printer is available
where there is usually a system administrator who changes the
configuration in the desired way.

So I think it is best to have browsing and broadcasting on by default.
The default configuration should address best the unexperienced user, as
the experts will change it to their needs anyway. The unexperienced user
calls the support or reports a bug as he does not know that this system
behavior is configurable and how to configure it.

Strange here is that kprinter sees the remote printer and OpenOffice.org
not. I assume that both use the CUPS API (I know that kprinter uses it)
and so they should list the same printers.

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kde: Openoffice doesn't see remote cups printers, just generic printer
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68256




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