On 23/01/12 20:29, Neal Becker wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> On 23/01/12 15:06, Neal Becker wrote: >>> I was so happy to see, maybe 1 year back, that fedora/kde had finally >>> progressed to the point that when I tried to add my home printer it was >>> autodetected, and I didn't have to specify the make, model, etc. >>> >>> Not any more. Seems pretty broken now. >>> >>> I seem to have 3 ways to try to add a printer. I can use system settings >>> (kde). >>> This, unlike the other ways, actually works. But it doesn't detect my >>> printer, and I do need to select make/model etc. >>> >>> The other two ways I find by opening application launcher and search for >>> 'print' which shows 2 items, 1 called 'printer configuration' and 1 called >>> 'printing'. >>> Neither of them work at all. The first gives me >>> 'cups-authorization-cancelled' when I try to add a new printer, without >>> having ever asked for any >>> authorization. (This seems to be just another way to get to the kde printer >>> config dialog, but a broken one). The other seems like a gnome version. >>> IIRC this one also fails but later in the process. >>> >> Adding a printer through the CUPS page (localhost:631) has always >> required you to be root. Did you go to the Admin page and log in as >> root? In the past I found that it is often best to set up the printer >> on this interface before doing anything else, but then I've used hplip >> to set up mine for the past 3 years, so things could be different now. >> >> Then again, have you tried system-config-printer? >> >> Other than that, it might help if you gave us a clue what printer you >> are trying to add, in case there are any specifics. >> >> Anne > > I'm not particularly looking for help here in setting up my printer. I'm > concerned for the poor fedora noob, who will find the process pretty much > broken. > I've not found it so, but if you have, please find out what went wrong and document it. That's more help to a newbie than simply saying it's broken. Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org
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