Print settings present two distinct interfaces for adding printers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1. Running stock 18.04.1
2. gnome-control-
As shown in the first screenshot below, the print settings panel shows an "Add..." in the headerbar as well as "Add a printer..." and "Additional printer settings" in the main area.
The first two buttons are highlighted and would naturally seem to be the first options to try, but they didn't actually work. While I was able to browse the list of printers attached to the print server, attempting to actually add the printer ended in an uninformative error message as shown in the second screenshot.
On the other hand, "Additional printer settings" launches the old system-
It is not at all obvious without trial and error which option one should choose to add a new printer.
Thank you for your bug report, could you add your journalctl log/command line output after trying to add the printer and getting the error dialog?
The "additional printer settings" button is a temporary Ubuntu workaround until the upstream settings UI provide feature parity (e.g printer sharing)