system-config-printer/applet.py is an interfering busybody

[Florian Hars]

Binary package hint:system-config-printer-gnome
I just sent a document to a networked printer that is currently switched off. After a while, applet.py gave me a warning that the printer might be offline. (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) This is OK, and I clicked it away. I will switch the printer on if I pass by there.
But now applet.py keeps repeating and repeating the message over and over again (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages). The whole point of using a spooler (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) is to be able to put documents in a queue to be (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) printed in time, there is no point for the queue manager (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) to demand immediate reactions from the user if something doesn't (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) work. One warning is OK (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) , but making a workstation unusable because something in the network (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) that might be out of the control of the local user (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages) is not working right now is absolutely rude. (Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages).

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

(Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages).

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy system-config-printer-gnome
system-config-printer-gnome:
  Installed: 0.7.81+svn1976-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 0.7.81+svn1976-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.81+svn1976-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://ftp.uni-muenster.de hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(Oh, sorry, I just had to close another of these messages).

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Note that gnome-cups-manager is not maintained any more for years and therefore obsolete. Please uninstall it and install system-config-printer instead.

[Florian Hars (hars)]

I was to rash assigning this behaviour to gnome-cups-icon (which used to be the dysfunctional annoyance affecting printing in gnome some time ago) when it was in fact another program.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Florian,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with the system-config-printer package. You made this bug report in 2008 and Ubuntu and the system-config-printer package have been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and, in the current version, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 309616
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G
[Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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