Bug 719391 - f15 vs. gui for selecting printer driver
Summary: f15 vs. gui for selecting printer driver
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-06 16:57 UTC by Benjamin Kosnik
Modified: 2013-08-09 05:50 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 15:47:24 UTC
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Description Benjamin Kosnik 2011-07-06 16:57:55 UTC
Description of problem:

In fedora 15, the GUI for printers is (AFAICT) system settings->printers. This dialogue does not have an option to select the printer driver. If one has booth cups+gutenprint and foomatic drivers installed, this is not a workable solution.

The workaround is to use localhost:631, the usual CUPS administrator page. This works flawlessly.

However, this is a regression from F14. And realistically it's a huge loss of functionality to think that people cannot select custom page sizes for their prints.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install f15
2. install gutenprint, foomatic
3. try to specify two printer configs, one with gutenprint + foomatic, one with cups + gutenprint
  
Actual results:

FAIL!

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2011-07-06 17:18:05 UTC
Changing component: control-center is what provides that UI.

(It is still possible to run system-config-printer, as before.)

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2012-08-07 15:47:26 UTC
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