Bug#334287: gnome-cups-manager: paper/advanced tabs are unusable or empty with IPP printers

[Mourad De Clerck]

Loic Minier wrote:
> On dim, oct 16, 2005, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
>>My /etc/cups/printers.conf is empty, but I was very happy to see the printer 
>>connected to an Apple appear automagically in the list of available printers.
>>
>>However I'm unable to set it the papersize to A3 or A4, and printing a test 
>>page prints it in US Letter format.
>>
>>The "Paper" tab shows the different options "Paper size", "Paper type" and so 
>>on but the combo box next to it is grayed out and empty.
> 
>  Which printer do you use and what PPD files did you install on your
>  system?  If in doubt, attach /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd.

The printer is a Epson Stylus 1290 connected via USB to the MacOSX
(panther) machine. I hadn't copied the corresponding PPD as I assumed
that as it would auto-detect the existence of the remote printer, it
would also use the PPD info from there.

>  Do you reproduce this with the CUPS administration page at
>  <http://127.0.0.1:631/>?  (Use Manage printers, then Configure
>  printers.)

There it is slightly different: "Configure printer" tries to redirect me
to http://powerbook.local:631/admin/... , and on that address it gives
me a "403 Forbidden" - I guess I have to look into the cups
configuration on OSX.

Now, copying the PPD from /etc/cups/ppd in macosx to my linux machine
solves it partially (I can choose the paper size at least, now - but no
other options like resolution etc).

So why I still think this is a bug:
* If it is trying, but can't access the other machine's printer settings
for some reason ("Forbidden"), it should maybe mention something about
it in the UI.
* If a printer is automatically detected, I don't think it's right to
expect users to copy PPDs over manually. beats the point of automatic
detection a bit, don't you think?

Maybe this needs to be reassigned to cups proper, I'm not sure.

-- Mourad