printer capplet requires cups-pk-helper

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

gnome-control-center printer capplet requires cups-pk-helper to be functional. Without it the user can not add a new printer or change the settings of the existing printers.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.0.2-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 4 15:49:47 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-27 (7 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, indeed that requires a mir as described on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-gtk3-gnome3

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

"Work items (oneiric-alpha-2):
Write a mir for cups-pk-helper:"

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is indeed a bit unfortunate. By default, admin users have printing administration capabilities by way of being in the lpadmin group. This is how system-config-printer can configure printers without extra privilege helpers.

Do we actually plan to use g-c-c's printing admin? I thought we were keeping system-config-printer, as it is much more complete?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Filing MIR at bug 808829

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

This can be considered Triaged as it's been assigned and the route to a solution seems well understood.

---
Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

The MIR (bug 808829) got marked won't fix because we won't be using g-c-c's printer panel. So I'll mark this invalid.