The recent updates have simply removed the checkbox from system-config- printer-gnome. Admittedly, you can manually add network printers by entering the IP address of the local print server (or whichever computer has the printer connected to it), but printers still do not show up automatically. Also, printer drivers now have to be locally installed (printer-driver-hpcups for instance), whereas the drivers only had to be installed on the server-side in the past. CUPS is starting to behave like Microsoft Windows' printing system. This is a big regression in usability, and the now gone ease of network printing is a lost selling point of why GNU/Linux is better than Windows.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047280 Title: "Show printers shared by other systems" box is greyed out Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Since upgrading to quantal the "Show printers shared by other systems" box is greyed out under the print settings. There doesn't seem to be any way to change this. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: system-config-printer-common 1.3.11+20120807-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: e9bd5d0c11367f73e7718b1ea675f7ba CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f CupsErrorLog: Date: Fri Sep 7 11:47:59 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2) Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: p11-kit: duplicate configured module: gnome-keyring.module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so lpstat: No destinations added. MachineType: LENOVO 4287CTO PackageArchitecture: all Papersize: a4 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-13-generic root=UUID=0021680f-1924-4d38-986d-52d44d79c9fd ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: system-config-printer UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-05 (2 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 07/07/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET50WW (1.20 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4287CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET50WW(1.20):bd07/07/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4287CTO:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn4287CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4287CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1047280/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
