I have this bug on a freshly installed Dapper Release Candidate 1. On my system I don't have a ~/.loptions file at all. Whatever setting I change with gnome-cups-manager, it seems to be stored somewhere, because it shows up next time I start gnome-cups-manager. However, checking with CUPS through http://localhost:631 still shows the initial printer settings from the time the printer was created. The latter ones seem to be used by all GNOME apps. Printing different qualites with OpenOffice works fine, however.
Dapper is a great so far, but not being able to change the print quality (and therefore wasting lot of expensive ink) is a big drawback, I think. It will make some people rant about Linux and prevent some from dropping Windows (I just killed my Windows partition trusting Dapper's quality, regretting it now a little bit). I'd vote for having it fixed with Dapper release. Alas I don't have the knowledge to help fixing it. Regards, Jens -- can't change print quality https://launchpad.net/bugs/26122 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs