[Bug 3507] Picasa takes a long time to bring up the printing window if there are many printers

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3507

Ralf Jung <post+wine(a)ralfj.de> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Ralf Jung <post+wine(a)ralfj.de> ---
> Another possibility is that there are one or more printers for which cupsGetPPD
> fails (and fails after some long timeout).  If it does fail then that printer
> never gets added to the registry and we therefore try to AddPrinter it every
> time we start Wine. A fix for this would be to maintain a blacklist of failing
> printers somehow.

One reason for this to fail is that Wine may be trying to access a network
printer that is in a network that's not currently reachable.  For example, I do
have some printers from my dayjob office in cups, but I also use the same
laptop at home -- so the office printers will not be reachable when I start
wine while not being in the office.

Somehow, other applications manage to deal with this better. I can open the
print dialogue of LibreOffice or the PDF viewer (Okular, also tried evince)
without noticeable delay even when printers are unreachable; if I then select a
printer that *is* reachable, I never have to wait for the other printers.

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