Comment 10 for bug 32302

Michal Suchanek (https://launchpad.net/people/hramrach) wrote:

> When gnome-cups-manager autodetects a
> printer it only shows the printer name, not the
> connection type/backen used.

> This information may be necessary to set up
> the printer properly.

> ie. HP DeskJet printers are shown twice, once
> with usb/lpt backend and once with hp
> backend. The printer only works properly with
> hplip if the hp backend is used.

> When a printer connected to a special backend
> is detected, the window with the list of printers
> should display information on that backend.

> ie when a printer using the hp backend is
> detected the window should show a notice that
> this backend should be used rather than the
> usb/lpt backends because it works with hplip

Michal,

I can agree with you that there should be an indication in detected printers names for special backends to differentiate between several entries, e.g.:
DESKJET 3820
DESKJET_3820 (hplip)

But I don't think it is necessary to have extra information about the backends. CUPS webinterface doesn't provide any extra information either for backends when setting up a printer.
I believe it would be sufficient if gnome-cups-manager just puts the detected printer with hp backend at the top of the list of detected printers and selects this by default (as described before).

Regards,
Pascal