Bug 462735

Summary: printer name can't be changed
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Jean-Daniel Dodin <jdd>
Component: YaST2Assignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: axel.braun, forgotten_SpTvqxsYZX, jsmeix
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Attachments: image of the printer name entry box

Description Jean-Daniel Dodin 2008-12-29 09:06:29 UTC 
With yast nor with the cups localhost:631 it's not possible to change the printers name and this is very unpleasant.

The solution is pretty easy (for experienced people): change the name in /etc/cups/printer.conf and restart cups...

11.1, all updates ok.

(I see many complains about the yast printer module, and I second them, but it's not the goal of this post)
Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2009-01-07 14:54:23 UTC 
Yes, it is not possible in CUPS to change a queue name.

Reason:
The queue name is a value which is too deep in the system
with too many relations to whatever else that it would be
possible (with reasonable effort) to change this value.

Think about
- currently active printing jobs for the queue,
- pending jobs for the queue,
- classes which have the queue as a member,
- instances for the queue,
- ...

As far as I know there are printer config tools which fake
as if a rename was possible but what they actually do is
to delete it and create a new queue but I don't know
what happens for the above mentioned cases.
Comment 2 Jean-Daniel Dodin 2009-01-07 15:13:44 UTC 
you didn't understand the case (may be I didn't explain it correctly)

new yast printer interface choose a random printer name at creation. it's not possible to chose one at any time

I want only to have a significant printer name at creation, not change it in use.

I can't understand hp_1 or hp_2 (I have two hp, wich is what?)



jdd
Comment 3 Johannes Meixner 2009-01-07 15:33:49 UTC 
You can edit the proposed queue name in the dialog
when you add a queue manually with YaST.

You cannot edit a queue name when the queue was set up
full automated during system installation by YaST
or when a new USB printer was plugged in by cups-autoconfig.
Comment 4 Jean-Daniel Dodin 2009-01-07 16:16:28 UTC 
Created attachment 263634 [details]
image of the printer name entry box
Comment 5 Jean-Daniel Dodin 2009-01-07 16:17:55 UTC 
well.. I installed and reinstalled the printer 10 times and didn't see it! my
fault

for the record, it's in the very bottom - see the attached image

sorry for the disturbing
thanks
jdd
Comment 6 Johannes Meixner 2009-01-09 11:16:44 UTC 
*** Bug 464123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Johannes Meixner 2014-05-12 08:42:08 UTC 
*** Bug 877174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***