Bug 152695 - Display only permanent printers chosen in system-config-printer or cups (Linux)
Summary: Display only permanent printers chosen in system-config-printer or cups (Linux)
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.6.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Print-Dialog
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Reported: 2022-12-27 08:25 UTC by Aleksandar Pavić
Modified: 2024-12-13 18:27 UTC (History)
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Description Aleksandar Pavić 2022-12-27 08:25:19 UTC
Description:
Libreoffice is displaying all printers discovered by

lpstat -l -e

command, which can be huge list on corporate networks.

Currently linuxes lets you configure printers via
system-config-printer 
or cups so only choosen printers are available.

This works in Google chrome and others.



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Print document
2.
3.

Actual Results:
Displays all printers available on LAN network

Expected Results:
Display only printers configured via system-config-printer or cups, not all from avahi.

So lpstat -l -e commands lits permanent at printers which should be visible in print dialog.
 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is common problem, lot's of questions on askubuntu and similar websites.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2024-04-05 12:23:13 UTC
Sounds reasonable -> NEW
Comment 2 Michael Weghorn 2024-12-13 18:27:57 UTC
I'm a bit unsure whether never showing auto-discovered printers wouldn't be problematic for others, in particular since, IIUC, the OpenPrinting direction seems to be more towards making things "just work, without the need to configure anything".

At a quick glance into the source code, `CUPSManager::runDests` uses `cupsGetDests2` [1] to get destinations.

I'm wondering whether that would always return all printers or it isn't rather something that depends on the local CUPS configuration.

What distro and CUPS version is this? Do you have cups-browsed (or similar) running?

[1] https://www.cups.org/doc/cupspm.html#cupsGetDests2