Bug#406209: gedit: keeps sending requests to cups server

[Arthur de Jong]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.14.4-5
Severity: normal

When I open a gedit window, select File -> Print, gedit sends some 
requests to the CUPS server (to determin printers and printer 
status?). If I select Cancel the polls to the CUPS server continue 
however. A request is sent to the server every 5 seconds. I have also 
observed cases where two requests are being sent every 5 seconds.

In a network with multiple hosts this puts an extra unwanted load on 
the CUPS server.

There are two issues with this:
- gedit keeps polling the CUPS server even after no information about
  the printers can be displayed to the user
- the polling interval cannot be configured and the default (5 
  seconds) is too low

The second problem is probably a bug in another package (libgnomeprint 
or libgnomeprintui?) but since I don't know which please reassign 
(and/or clone) the bug to the right package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.16.0-3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gedit-common               2.14.4-5      official text editor of the GNOME 
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15                0.60.4-4      GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.3-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-8   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.0-3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-4     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.16.0-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0         2.12.1-7      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0       2.12.1-4      GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-4      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0      1.8.2-1       shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.8-4      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-4     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  python                     2.4.4-2       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-glade2              2.8.6-8       GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2-desktop      2.14.0-3      Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk2                2.8.6-8       Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support             0.5.6         automated rebuilding support for p
ii  python2.4                  2.4.4-1       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-11     A free electronic cataloging syste

gedit recommends no packages.

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