In change driver, not enough info to make educated choice

The four identical entries are PPDs for SpliX in four different languages. What is missing here is that the languages of the PPDs are shown. In addition, system-config-printer formerly allowed showing additional info from the OpenPrinting database entry of the driver.

The language info should really be added. Without it it is really confusing and one gets easily a PPD in an unwished language.

Having the additional info from the OpenPrinting database, at least by clicking a button, is also useful (as it was formerly in system-config-printer).

Tim, WDYT?

Actually the driver list ought to be filtered by language already, only showing you the languages relevant to your locale. Perhaps that isn't working.

As for a button to provide addition information from the OpenPrinting database, is it possible to use an API on the web site for that?

Tim, you can use my web query aPI, as well as for giving additional info to the user and for driver auto-download:

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/Query

What does 'locale' say? Are you by any chance running with LC_ALL=C?

Tim, "LC_ALL=C" should select the English PPDs, as it also selects English UI text.

And if a user has a language for which no PPD is available, also the English PPD should be selected, and not no PPD which makes the printer look like not supported at all.

These PPD selection policies should also apply to non-interactive print queue setup via hal-cups-utils.

Please try current SVN.

I have tested the current SVN and it does the right thing, showing language info in the driver entries, and for the locale "C" being selected only english PPDs.

Unfortunately, this is not the only bug. Also the SpliX package (the driver for Samsung printers) has a bug. The language tags of all PPDs are English, independent of the actual UI language of the PPD. I will fix this with the update to the newest version of SpliX which I will do soon. Adding appropriate task ...

You can test Tim's fixes if you choose the Kyocera FS-7000 as printer model (package openprinting-ppds-extra must be installed).

system-config-printer (0.7.78+svn1771-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     o Subversion snapshot r1771
     o Added support for setting up queues pointing to Mac OS X printers,
       detected with the dnssd CUPS backend.
     o Allow deleting of remote queues, so that queues pointing to Mac OS X
       printers can get deleted again.
     o Fixed handling of auto-detected IPP queues in the "New printer" wizard.
     o Fixed traceback when creating a raw queue.
     o Fixed "New Printer" notifications after they got broken by the icon
       hiding changes for LP: #151360 and LP: #156816.
     o For C/POSIX locale, show only English PPDs.
     o Include PPD language in driver description (LP: #161037).
     o If there are no jobs but there is a printer warning/error indicated
       by the tray icon, set the icon tooltip to the reason description.
     o In the printer status window fix columns so that the full printer name
       can be seen.
     o Set printer icon in "Connect" dialog.
     o Set AboutDialog logo by icon name, set URL and email hooks, set icon
       (LP: #165101).
     o In the printer status window set Ctrl+R accelerator for Refresh menu
       entry (LP: #137984).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:40:08 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package splix - 1.1.1-0ubuntu1

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splix (1.1.1-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * debian/rules: Suppress build of drivers using the patented JBIG algorithm,
    install with "make install" to improve maintainability.
  * debian/rules: Correct language tags of the non-English PPD files
    (LP: #161037).
  * debian/splix.install: Removed, as we install with "make install" now.

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:49:41 +0100