On 2/20/07, Volker Christian Behr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:43 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.4.2-2
> Severity: minor
>
> After cups-pdf is installed, the CUPS admin facilities (I use
> http://localhost:631/admin) identify that a "New Printer" has been
> found (nice). The new printer is labelled as "PDF Printer (Virtual
> Printer)" (also nice).
>
> After clicking on the "Add This Printer" link, I find the new printer
> which I'm setting up is automatically given the name
> "Virtual_Printer". This is not so nice. "Virtual_Printer" could mean
> any number of things. I think it would be very helpful if the default
> name identified just what kind of virtual printer it was.
> "Virtual_PDF_Printer" would do the job, or "PDF_Printer" or something
> like that.
>
> I can't see the name in the conffile or PPD, I assume it must be
> hardcoded in /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf ?
(This is upstream)
You are right - this information is taken from the backend's
initialisation string with which it informs CUPS of its existance. I
will change this to some more comprehensive name.
If no one objects, I will make it "Virtual PDF Printer (CUPS-PDF)" which
will result in "CUPS-PDF" as printer name.
CUPS-PDF makes perfect sense as a default printer name. I'm a for it.
However, this will unfortunately have to wait until after Etch, as far
as Debian is concerned, since we are already in the freeze.
--
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi
