[cups-devel] CUPS printer profiles not exported via IPP?

[Michael Sweet]

Jan-Marek,

GNOME does its own thing for saved settings and does not use the CUPS option API.


> On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow at fbihome.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm currently trying to understand, why Gtk+ doesn't see the printer
> profiles created in KDE. KDE writes this data to .cups/lpoptions. As
> <printer>/<profile>. These are displayed in KDE and LibreOffice printer
> dialogs.
> 
> The Gtk+ printer dialog just shows the normal printers. I had a look at
> the LibreOffice cups backend, which uses cupsGetDests, and Gtk+ cups
> backend, which uses IPP calls with CUPS_GET_PRINTERS to get the printer
> list.
> 
> Can someone just verify my understanding of the problem: .cups/lpoptions
> is a local file and printer profiles are a user specific local
> convenience feature, independant of the server and therefore not
> editable via localhost:631 or queryable via IPP.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jan-Marek
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair