Bug#265741: openoffice.org: native CUPS support is a regression and buggy

[Christoph Claus <christoph_claus@web.de>]

Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.2-2
Severity: important

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openoffice.org's native support for cups is well meant, but buggy:

printers which aren't available every time oo.o starts (e.g. remote
cups-autodetected printing host turned off sometimes, laptop-net
reconfiguring cups) confuse oo.o.  I have to manually remove
~/.openoffice/1.1.2/user/psprint/psprint.conf to make work again.

I'd like to use a printing wrapper such as xpp or kprinter, those can cope
with this situation.  openoffice is the only program i know of which doesn't
even allow to use a alternative print command.  Besides it violates the
unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing that well and it inhibits
integration into desktop environments like KDE. 

I set importance high because I'm unable to print without special action,
which does severly decrease the usability of an office suite.

I may be a bit rude, please excuse me.  I just don't understand why it's
necessary to give up a working, but ugly solution (oopadmin or config file)
for a partly (and in my case not at all) working nice solution.

Please add back the possibility to use alternative printing commands.

Thanks a lot for your otherwise very good work.

Christoph

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii  dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.22.30.1  Common utilities for spelling dict
ii  openoffice.org-bin            1.1.2-2    OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files   1.1.2-2+1  Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-de [openo 1.1.2-2    German language package for OpenOf
ii  ttf-opensymbol                1.1.2-2    The OpenSymbol TrueType font

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