[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #2614: Web interface cannot modify rawipp:queue
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Mon Dec 3 14:10:54 PST 2007
Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Till Kamppeter wrote:
>>> This OK for broadcasted/browsed queues, but from a usability point of
>>> view a user must be able to remove what he has created (the IPP queue)
>>> with the same program with which he has created it.
>> In the bug, Tim created the printer with lpadmin.
>>
>
> This printer can as well be created with the web interface. One only
> needs to enter the correct IPP URI.
>
>> At best this could be considered a feature request, but given how the
>> current URI-rewriting code works it would be difficult to change the
>> current behavior without breaking things, and we spent a lot of time
>> making sure that the current functionality worked reliably.
>>
>
> CUPS should not only have the attribute local/remote printer but also
> local/remote driver. A queue automatically created by a remote broadcast
> is "remote printer"/"remote driver", a queue manually created as a raw
> queue pointing to a remote CUPS queue via IPP is "local printer"/"remote
> driver", a queue pointing to a local or network printer, set up with a
> PPD is "local printer"/"local driver".
There is a "CUPS_PRINTER_DISCOVERED" attribute that could be used for
this, but we'd still have to somehow update the IPP->CGI mapping to
distinguish between discovered/auto-created and regular print queues.
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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