Bug 487344

Summary:	printer-applet is started even if no printers are configured
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Piotr Piotrowski <ppp5>
Component:	kdeutils	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr
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Description Piotr Piotrowski 2009-02-25 15:14:37 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.0 (like Gecko) Fedora/4.2.0-15.fc10

I have no printer, but printer-applet is started anyway eating up memory (together with some other autostarted apps I do not use). The applet uses over 30 MB (RES column in top on x86_64).

Please disable the autostart, unless it is crucial for the applet to be running. You might consider adding

X-KDE-autostart-condition=printer-appletrc:General:Autostart:false

to /usr/share/autostart/printer-applet.desktop, so the autostart is configurable and not global.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2009-02-25 15:25:34 UTC

The "proper" fix would be to start on demand when printing happens, but until then, hacking around (as suggested) is likely frought with peril for most folk.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-03-18 13:36:31 UTC

*shrug*, making it configurable (via X-KDE-autostart-condition) is acceptable to me, I guess.

Comment 3 Than Ngo 2009-03-18 15:39:18 UTC

most users have printers nowadays, so disable it by default is not good. If you don't have printer you can still remove the kdeutils-printer-applet subpackage.

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2009-03-18 15:46:08 UTC

Except that it's required by kdeutils for upgrade path reasons.

Comment 5 Piotr Piotrowski 2009-03-18 16:49:38 UTC

I do agree that the proper fix would be to start on demand. However, making it configurable with autostart *on by default* would, in my opinion, also be acceptable. This would not break anything and people get to choose what is running on their system.

For the record, trying to uninstall it was the first thing I did but the dependencies made me look for other fix/hack.

The problem is that it eats quite a lot of RAM and is not the only such app wasting my memory - this might be called a general trend. Where are the times 128 MB was enough for Red Hat Linux. ;-P

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2009-03-18 17:07:06 UTC

I don't see any generation or use of an printer-appletrc anywhere.  Am I missing something?  

If that's missing, then hacking it in fedora is a no-go, and should be taken upstream to implement fully/properly.