[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  changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Ralf Jung  ---
> 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.