Okular can't see printers

[Jan Grulich]

On pondělí 27. srpna 2018 19:02:37 CEST Douglas Summers wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 09:05 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > okular is sandboxed, so has not network support. You can override
> > this
> > with something like
> > 
> >  flatpak override --share=network org.kde.okular
> > 
> > However, a large point with flatpak is to run sandboxed, which seems
> > especailly important for an application like okular.
> > 
> > There is a printing portal that should allow full printing even when
> > sandboxed. I'm not sure what the status of using the printing portal
> > from Qt is at the moment though.
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 6:53 PM Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > I just noticed last night that Okular can't see any of my
> > > local/network
> > > printers. Is there a command-line switch to fix this?
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> 
> Tried it - no luck. Do you have a link to the aforementioned printing
> portal project?

Qt still doesn't support printing portal, but this will hopefully change soon. 
Another problem is that even if Qt would support it, okular handles printing a 
bit differently from what I remember and would need to be changed additionally 
to support printing from flatpak.

Regards,
Jan