On Fri 31 Jan 2020 at 14:56:52 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > On 31/01/2020 14:03, Brian Potkin wrote: > > That's perfectly correct. However, from my observations in user forums, > > driverless does not have the visibility amongst users one would like or > > expect. One reason is that the GTK print dialog deals badly with IPP > > printers. > > > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1509 > > > > A second reason is that a change in cups-browsed.conf is needed for a > > printer to show up in the GTK dialog and users are unaware of this. A > > consequence of both these infelicities is that users immediately seek a > > driver solution. OTOH, IPP printers are immediately enumerated in Qt > > apps and LibreOffice without cups-browsed. > > > > Great to hear that 2 of 3 print dialogs (Qt and LibreOffice work but GTK > not) work with current CUPS and without need of cups-browsed.
A recent example of a user issue is at https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=310774&sid=89b370ffd59b83e26c047474efc97924 > Which change in the cups-browsed.conf is needed to make the GTK dialog > display the printers correctly? Uncomment "CreateIPPPrinterQueues All", > I would change the defaults of cups-browsed appropriately. Please see #921252 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921252 Regards, Brian.
