when you plugin a printer (usb) after the boot gnome-cups-manager does not show it

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Kristof Vansant">

> When you plugin a printer (usb) after the boot gnome-cups-manager does not
> show it in the autodetected list. I had to reboot to see it. Why is this? 
> 
> PS: wouldn't it be better if a new printer is found it is autoconfigured
> so to user doesn't need to run gnome-cups-manager. Showing a little
> notification that a printer (foo) was found and auto configured should be
> enough. I think fedora does it like that these days.

There are a *lot* of changes in Fedora to make it work like this. If you
want to document the patches they've made in an Ubuntu enhancement request
bug (I've been planning to do it, but haven't had time), we can start
integrating them. :-)

Thanks,

- Jeff

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