Default printing setting issues with print-manager

[Angel Docampo]

Hello,


Yesterday I opened a feature request on the tracker regarding the printing default's behaviour.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395885


In short, print-manager saves the settings globally, so you need the root credentials. On the enterprise side, this won't be possible, so I ask print-manager maintainer to save the settings (i.e: setting default printer, color quality, paper size, etc) as per user, so we can have multi-seats computers, roaming profiles and the possibility to scripting whatever we want as the current user without root permission's involved, while the home user didn't notice the change, as usually home desktops are single-user and they will be fine if CUPS settins are per user instead as global.


It seems print-manager maintainer refuses to fix because he says CUPS doesn't provide any API for that purpose so print-manager have to have root permissions... I'm not a developer but I know cli tools like lpadmin, lpstat, lpq and lpoptions, all from CUPS package, that do exactly what I think Plasma for the enterprise needs, without the need of root credentials.


Perhaps board members on this list can enlight a little in this on how we can proceed.


Thanks



Angel Docampo
Datalab Tecnologia, s.a.
Castillejos, 352 - 08025 Barcelona
Tel. 93.476.69.10 - 6711

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