Remote printers do not disappear when they are no longer available
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| cups-filters (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
With my laptop, I often move in different buildings in my university, connecting to various local networks. Everytime I do so, a number of remote printers appear in CUPS, which is good.
The problem is: once I move to a different network, those remote printers do *not* disappear, despite the fact that they are no longer accessible.
Not only does this clutter the printer list with a hige list of useless printers, but it also makes the system very slow as it tries to connect to those printers to get stats (or so I suppose). And for the same reason, it is very hard to manually remove said printers (because as soon as I select them, the system gets stuck in trying to contact them).
As a workaround, I found that manually restarting the cups-browsed service cleans the list. Would it be possible to hook a reload of cups-browsed everytime I connect to a new network?
