Ubuntu
cups package

Enable "Show printers shared by other systems" by default

Bug #534296 reported by David Siegel on 2010-03-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #157345: "show printers shared by other systems" should be on by default. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	One Hundred Papercuts	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned
	cups (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

In System > Administration > Printing, in the dialog opened via Server > Settings, there's an option to "Show printers shared by other systems." This option is turned off by default, but we should enable it so that Ubuntu users can print to shared printers out of the box, without having to discover this option.

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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-03-08:

Screenshot of option to be enabled Edit (76.2 KiB, image/png)

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2010-03-08:

How does this list get refreshed? I'd dislike seeing every printer ever exposed by any system on any network I'd been around in a long list.

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote on 2010-03-08:

Emmet: it is live, it only shows the printers currently available on the network and immediately shows them, which means you don't have to install or configure anything. If I'm correct it uses Avahi to do so.

Vish (vish) on 2010-03-09

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed