Bug#347314: glabels provides no printer options

[Marc Wilson]

Package: glabels
Version: 2.1.2-1
Severity: normal

Glabels *still* does not allow for any access to the properties of the
printer to which output will be sent.  While at least now that #323145
has been fixed, it actually uses the name of the configured printer, it
still makes it impossible to select paper type, input tray, or any of
the other parameters usually enjoyed by people owning something more
than your typical brain-dead inkjet.

This is particularly amusing considering the attempts by Gnome to
homogenize everything down to the lowest common denominator.  If Gnome
has decided that users no longer need any sort of options for their
printers, they need to (a) tell the printer manufacturers, and (b) at
least get together among themselves, so that applications like evolution
and gedit can stop offering the extra configurability.

Or does it say in the HIG somewhere that every Gnome application should
handle the printer differently, and I just missed it?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages glabels depends on:
ii  glabels-data  2.1.2-1                    data files for gLabels
ii  libart-2.0-2  2.3.17-1                   Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0   1.10.3-1                   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6                    Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0  2.10.1-1                   Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2- 2.10.1-1                   The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6         2.3.5-11                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2     1.0.2-3                    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcamel1.2-0 1.2.3-8                    The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii  libcomerr2    1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 common error description library
ii  libdb4.2      4.2.52-23                  Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libebook1.2-3 1.2.3-8                    Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserve 1.2.3-8                    Utily library for evolution data s
ii  libesd0       0.2.36-1                   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig 2.3.2-1.1                  generic font configuration library
hi  libfreetype6  2.1.7-2.4                  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4   2.12.1-8                   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11   1.2.2-1                    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0   1:2.5.1-2                  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.8.5-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyr 0.4.6-2                    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0   2.12.0.1-4                 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanva 2.12.0-2                   A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint 2.12.1-3                   The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprint 2.12.1-2                   GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.12.0-2                   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2- 2.12.2-3                   The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11   1.0.16-14                  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0 1.1-4                      library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.8.9-2                    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6       6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62     6b-11                      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkrb53      1.4.3-5                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  liborbit2     1:2.12.4-1                 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1                   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0    1.2.8rel-5                 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0      1.7-5                      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6        6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2    0.2.17-1                   Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6      6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxcursor1   1.1.3-1                    X cursor management library
ii  libxext6      6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6        6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1  6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2       2.6.23-1                   GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2    6.9.0.dfsg.1-2             X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.0.2-1                X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.3-9                  compression library - runtime

glabels recommends no packages.

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