[Bug 43059] Re: When adding network printer wizard chooses wrong subnet for scanning

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 13:45:56 UTC 2008


According to the initial report this is not a bug in system-config-
printer-kde but really in kdebase. The network scanning facility
mentioned is a part of the KDE Printing Manager. system-config-printer
(both KDE and GNOME) asks CUPS for available printers and so the CUPS
backends do the network scan in a much faster and efficient way (via
SNMP and Bonjour/Zeroconf) and they find always the LAN and do not get
stuck in the loopback device.

The KDE Printing Manager is not maintained any more upstream and removed
from KDE 4.x on, so it does not appear any more in Intrepid. Therefore
we will not do any usability improvements on this software any more.

system-config-printer (at least the GTK/GNOME version) turned to be a
de-facto standard. It is currently used in Ubuntu, Fedora/Red Hat, and
Mandriva Linux. So the latest and greatest in terms of printer
management and GUI for new CUPS-internal functionality usually goes into
system-config-printer and therefore this is the recommended printer
setup tool.


** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: system-config-printer-kde => kdebase

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When adding network printer wizard chooses wrong subnet for scanning
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