system-config-printer and Zeroconf avahi-daemon

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

Hello, on my Mac finding a network printer is very easy with Bonjour
aka Zeroconf. I was excited to see that Fedora has the Zeroconf avahi-daemon
running by default, but unfortunately system-config-printer doesn't use it.
Virtually every new network printer has Zeroconf--it's a very cheap feature.

After I installed the avahi-tools package I can easily browse the
available printers, --resolve would give additional info like IP address:

# avahi-browse  --terminate _printer._tcp
+ eth0 IPv4 hp color LaserJet 3500 (00306EC4BCFF)         UNIX Printer
       local
+ eth0 IPv4 hp color LaserJet 4600 (0001E6739D76)         UNIX Printer
       local

Where is the right place to request this feature for system-config-printer
and/or possibly implement some code?

I just found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing but it appears quite old
(refers to Fedora Core 5 and last edit was about a year ago). It also looks
like the upcoming CUPS 1.3 will publish shared printers as Zeroconf
_printer._tcp services, which would of course be awesome to take
advantage of: http://www.cups.org/roadmap.php

(For anyone not familiar with Zeroconf, as you might expect the O'Reilly
book is quite good: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bonjour/toc.html )

Thanks,
Joshua

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:34 -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>  Where is the right place to request this feature for
> system-config-printer
>  and/or possibly implement some code? 
You can file a bug in Bugzilla and mark it as 'enhancement' for the
severity.

I think there might be some work in CUPS 1.3 to do with this, but I
haven't yet had a chance to take a closer look.

Tim.
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[Thufir]

Hmm.  I seem to be having a similar issue with my Samsung ML-2510 printer.



-Thufir