Bug 387491

Summary:	Okular print dialog does not provide a way to select a printer other than 4 displayed
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Ilya Bizyaev <bizyaev>
Component:	printing	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, kapillamba4, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.1.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	I have added 8 dummy printers (https://superuser.com/questions/304670/how-to-add-a-fake-dummy-null-printer-in-cups) and okular print dialog detected only 5 initially

Description Ilya Bizyaev 2017-12-01 10:42:57 UTC

Today I had to print a document in a network that had more than 4 printers. Okular seemed to find all of them successfully, but only display 4 (seemingly in an alphabetical order) with no way to choose the one I needed.

Comment 1 Kapil 2017-12-02 05:25:30 UTC

Created attachment 109169 [details]
I have added 8 dummy printers (https://superuser.com/questions/304670/how-to-add-a-fake-dummy-null-printer-in-cups) and okular print dialog detected only 5 initially

Okular print dialog detected only 5 printers initially but after i opened the print dialog again after running lpstat, it detected all 8 printers.

I tried this with 13 dummy printers also and it detected only 10 initially but after some time it detected all 13 printers.

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2017-12-05 15:58:26 UTC

Okular doesn't have anything to do with the printing dialog, that is provided by upstream Qt, so i'm going to close this bug.

I guess you can reproduce this problem with other Qt apps like assistant for example, you should open a bug in qt bug tracker at https://bugreports.qt.io/ but take into account that at the moment there's not really a maintainer for the printing dialog.

FWIW I tried it adding 13 fake printers like you mentioned and i got them all, but on the other hand i have no network printers, so i guess the problem may lie in the networking side of it.