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Gnome extension - Manage Jobs and Printers
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Use printer's description #6

Closed linux-man closed 7 years ago

linux-man commented 7 years ago

Use the printer's description property (if not blank) instead of the queue name in the drop-down list (user request).

linux-man commented 7 years ago

Probably need to get info from "lpstat -l -p printername"

linux-man commented 7 years ago

Can be done, after solving some async issues, but I won't go that way. Printers are identified by name - not description. That happens on Gnome Control Center and system-config-printer. It looks like the latest Gnome Control Center don't even give access to printer description field. So, for the sake of coherence, this applet should identify printers the same way they are identified on the rest of the system - by name - even if it doesn't look nice.