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Please separate automatically discovered remote printers from locally configured printers

Bug #314408 reported by Martin Pitt on 2009-01-06

This bug affects 5 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
GTK+	Expired	Wishlist	gnome-bugs #566782
One Hundred Papercuts	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned
Qt	New	Undecided	Unassigned
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned
qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

The main reason why Debian/Ubuntu does not enable automatic use of network printers broadcasted by remote CUPS servers by default is that there is no way to tell apart locally configured (and thus trusted) printers from those which got advertized by remote CUPS servers (and thus open the possibility of luring someone into printing confidential material onto a rogue network printer).

E. g. I have a locally configured "local_ps" printer, and an ML-1610 configured on a remote server which appears through cups browsing detection. The print dialog currently looks like this:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/screenshots/print_dialog_gtk.png

the printers look exactly the same, I have no way to tell which ones can be considered trusted. It would be great to separate the locally configured from the remotely detected ones:

  |_| Print to file |
  Locally configured printers:
  |=| HP DeskJet 123 | room 10 |
  |=| Samsung Foo Color | |
  Automatically detected remote printers:
  |=| ML-1610 | dagobert |

Locally configured and automatically discovered remote printers can be told apart with the CUPS_PRINTER_DISCOVERED flag (see cups/cups.h).

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Printing#listing>: "whenever available printers are listed, they should be listed in up to two sections: * Whenever at least one manually configured printer is available, a section beginning with an insensitive item, “Configured printers”. * Whenever at least one broadcast printer is available, a section beginning with an insensitive item, “Discovered printers”."

See original description

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Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2009-01-06

Changed in gtk+2.0:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2009-01-06:

I also filed it at the upstream Qt tracker, but did not get a ticket ID/URL. Maybe they need to approve it, or something.

Changed in qt4-x11:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-01-07

Changed in gtk:
status:	Unknown → New

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2009-01-07:

http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=240319

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2009-01-19

Changed in gtk+2.0:
assignee:	nobody → pitti

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-08-16:

The bug didn't get any change in 1.5 years, pitti do you still work on it? Or should that one be unassigned?

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2010-08-16

description:	updated
summary:	- Please separate autodetected from locally configured printers + Please separate automatically discovered remote printers from locally + configured printers

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-08-16: Re: [Bug 314408] Re: Please separate autodetected from locally configured printers

Sebastien Bacher [2010-08-16 11:43 -0000]:
> The bug didn't get any change in 1.5 years, pitti do you still work on
> it?

If someone else wants to work on it, please go ahead. I'd still like
to keep it on my radar as a pet bug.

Martin

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2010-08-16:

I have changed the formulation of the subject and description somewhat to make more clear what is requested. It also looks like that it is rather simple to implement, so I have awarded this report with the paper cut status.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2010-08-16:

Screenshot of the bug description Edit (14.1 KiB, image/png)

Attached the screenshot of the bug description, to keep it conserved for the case that it gets later removed from its original location.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-15

Changed in gtk:
importance:	Unknown → Wishlist

Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) on 2010-12-23

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Adam York (aaylnx) wrote on 2011-01-20:

Not a developer - just a regular user hoping that this bug will get fixed since it places a big roadblock in front of new users who do not know about: click "Server", click "Settings", click "Show printers shared by other systems" option. Glad to see its been moved to a papercut. Hopeful for Natty.

Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) on 2011-01-20

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2011-05-23

affects:

gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2012-06-01

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Martin Pitt (pitti) → nobody

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2012-07-20:

Taking for design.

A quick dump of ideas to start with:
- use the same emblem for untrusted printers as for untrusted .deb packages in Ubuntu Software Center
- a /!\ emblem (but Mac uses that for printers that seem to be offline)
- a shield emblem
- the passport-holding dude from Firefox's security warnings
- in the Print dialog, don't list untrusted printers directly, but finish the printer menu with "Set Up Another Printer… (3 detected)"
- prefix the name with "(Untrusted)"

affects:	gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
assignee:	nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
status:	Triaged → Confirmed

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2012-07-20

affects:

ubuntu → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2013-05-29

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
assignee:	nobody → Paper Cuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2013-05-29:

Here's how we shouldn't do it: http://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/49449036514/aslaneatsapples-i-dont-even-know-anymore

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote on 2013-05-29: Re: [Papercuts-ninja] [Bug 314408] Re: Please separate automatically discovered remote printers from locally configured printers

#10

*Unix's Rule of Silence*
If there isn't any important thing to say, nothing shall be said.

El 29/05/13 19:23, Matthew Paul Thomas escribió:
> Here's how we shouldn't do it:
> http://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/49449036514/aslaneatsapples-i
> -dont-even-know-anymore
>

Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) on 2013-05-29

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone:	none → papercuts-s-gtk

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2014-01-08

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → In Progress

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2014-01-08:

#11

Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Printing?action=diff&rev2=23&rev1=21>

affects:	gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
assignee:	Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
status:	In Progress → Triaged
description:	updated