Bug 106951

Summary:	kprinter doesn't handle wildcard entries in printcap for LPRng
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeprint	Reporter:	Ulrich Hermisson <ulrich_hermisson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ulrich Hermisson 2005-06-07 12:26:47 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages
OS:                Linux

The LPRng printing system allows wildcard entries in the printcap file like

*:client:lp=%P@printhost

Such an entry shows up as "*", which doesn't work. It would be nice if in this case:

- a printer specified by the environment variable PRINTER appears in the list as the preselected printer

- selecting "*" would allow one to specify a printer name, maybe also select one from a list which is generated by "lpstat -a"

With kind regards
Ulrich Hermisson

Comment 1 Cristian Tibirna 2005-08-22 21:53:24 UTC

UNCONFIRMED (batch reassigning messed this)

Comment 2 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:01:17 UTC

KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived.  Closing all open bugs.