GNOME Printer setup tool

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 23:08:34 UTC 2017


On 06/16/2017 08:53 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey Till
> 
> Le 30/04/2017 à 02:18, Till Kamppeter a écrit :
>> This is simply a quick first impressions review. Later I will probably
>> post some bug reports.
> 
> Thanks for the testing & feedback that's useful. Did you have a chance
> to report some of those issues? Ideally they would be reported upstream:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-control-center
> 

Here we go:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784556
Changing option defaults is inconsistent

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784562
"Printer Details" dialog has no title bar, no "OK", "Cancel", and 
"Close" button, requires ESC key to close

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784563
"Search for Drivers" button in "Printer Details" dialog does nothing

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784565
No "Server Settings" dialog in the printer setup tool

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784571
No way to distinguish between personal and system-wide printer settings

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784572
Default printer should be prominently marked

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784574
Description and Location fields of CUPS queues should be shown in 
printer list

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784575
List of discovered/detected printers in add-printer dialog is cluttered 
by SMB entries of local printers

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784582
No confirmation dialog when removing a printer

And here is a complete list of open bugs in GNOME's printer setup tool:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&component=Printers&list_id=230142&order=bug_id%20DESC&product=gnome-control-center&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced

Here is a crasher in cups-pk-helper (did not happen to me today any more):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pk-helper/+bug/1697288
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pk-helper/+bug/1697291

This also needs fixing.

    Till



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