Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 487344
printer-applet is started even if no printers are configured
Last modified: 2009-03-18 13:07:06 EDT
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
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.
*shrug*, making it configurable (via X-KDE-autostart-condition) is acceptable to me, I guess.
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.
Except that it's required by kdeutils for upgrade path reasons.
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
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.