Minor niggle with CUPS

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:31:06AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:59:30AM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> 
> > The Info field for all printers created by print manager is 
> > "Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x".
> > 
> > This is less than helpful when viewing shared printers on a Mac
> > running OS/X as that seems to be the field it chooses to display !
> > Is there any chance of making the Info field more desciptive of the
> > printer ?
> 
> The reason is does this is that queues created by the GUI tool need to
> be marked in some way as belonging to it -- this is so that when
> queues are deleted they stand a chance of getting cleaned up.  If we
> had a GUI tool that was not tied to alchemist this wouldn't be an
> issue.
> 
> Please file a bug in bugzilla about this, to remind me to think of
> other possible ways to deal with it.

OK, thanks. I've had to hand-edit the /etc/cups/printer.conf file so I can
distinguish between my printers for the moment. I don't intend deleting them but
I'll try to remember if I do, that it might not happen!

--
patrick