Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 If you read my post, I think you'll see I did try to describe the problem. I did at least go to the trouble of trying these dialogs again and telling what happened. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
