300769 - instances of installed CUPS printers do not show up right in the pull-down menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 290168

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jonas Hoffmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1

Say you have a CUPS printer zprint and two instances zprint/simplex and
zprint/duplex, then all those three destinations show up as zprint.
So there is no way to distinguish between those.
It works fine if you set the instances explicitly, using e.g.
pref("print.printer_list", "zprint/simplex zprint/duplex");


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate an instance of a CUPS printer:
   lpoptions -p zprint/simplex -o Duplex=None
2. start up Mozilla and the print dialog


Actual Results:  
In the drop down menu there are multiple printers 'zprint' but no 'zprint/simplex'


Expected Results:  
the instances should have shown up as zprint/simplex zprint/duplex and so on.

All Printers show up twice. I assume the first list comes from XPrint and the
second list directly from CUPS(??) XPrint does not show the instances at all,
but thats another problem which I didn't investigate yet.
However it does not matter if XPrint is running or not.

Comment 1

[Kenneth Herron]

See bug 290168 and bug 279298. This is fixed for trunk releases, but the 1.7
branch is only taking security fixes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290168 ***