unity-settings daemon notifies as error an info message Edit

[Roland65]

[This bug is related to bug #1202198]

When sending a document to a printer, unity-settings daemon will show a message like:

ERROR: connecting to printer

Nevertheless, the document will print without any issue.
Actually this message is a warning or info message, as it is telling the user that it is connecting to the printer.

In Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic), there are two packages that can be involved in gnome printer norifications: gnome-settings-daemon and unity-settings-daemon. The latter package seems to be a fork of the former, for Unity use I suppose.

These two packages come with a printer notification plugin. The one of gnome-settings-daemon is /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-printer and the other is /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon/usd-printer.

I found that if the gnome-flashback session (a.ka. "Gnome Classic") is used, the printer notification plugin involved is usd-printer, from the unity-settings-daemon package. I guess that gsd-printer is used in a Gnome Shell session (I don't use it so I can test my guessing).

So, to remove the connecting-to-printer false error message, I think the safest approach is to patch both packages, just by adding the lines:

 if (g_str_has_prefix (reason, "connecting-to-device"))
         return TRUE;

to the reason_is_blacklisted() static function in gsd-print-notifications-manager.c.

A patch is attached for the gnome-settings-daemon package and I'll also fill a bug report with a patch for the unity-settings-daemon package.

Ubuntu 14.10
unity-settings-daemon_14.04.0+14.10.20141014-0ubuntu1

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

looks like that could still apply to gnome-settings-daemon trunk, https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/print-notifications/gsd-print-notifications-manager.c#n296

[Roland65 (roland65)]

Yes, the gnome-settings-daemon package has the same bug.