hacking around with cups etc, now kprinter can't find cups

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I don't think I'm subbed to this list, so please include me in 
replies.

The cups-1.1.19 thats installed by default on an FC2 system has a 
broken response that crashes any kde app that gets anywhere near a 
printer.

I mean, open a menu, and just hover the mouse over a printer related 
name in the menu, and 1 second later, boom, that piece of kde is gone 
till you restart x, its replaced by a crash advisory window front and 
center.

I upgrade installed the rpms for cups-1.1.21-rc2, and gimp-print-4.2.7 
from scratch which works with gimp-2.0, (this was brought on by 
defective translations in the redhat supplied gimp-print-4.2.7 rpms, 
everything was (en) in the browser display when selecting the right 
ppd's) so I can now print from the gimp, mozilla and any other 
non-kde app I've since tried.

I've built kde-3.3 with konstruct, and even done several "cvs up 
-dP's", killed the cookies in kde/kdelibs & done a make clean, and 
rebuilt & re-installed from there, but the kprinter menu still 
doesn't have the cups system as an output option.  x(kde) has been 
restarted several times also.

FWIW, when I had the cups-1.1.20 rpms installed, while konstruct was 
busy makeing kde-3.3, and gimp-print-4.2.6pre3 from a tarball, 
everything worked.  Then along comes yum and replaces the gimp-1.2.6 
with 2.0 and everything else got in a little red wagon and rolled 
merrily off down a long downhill road to hell.

So what is it that I should do to make kde "re-survey" the system and 
find the now replaced cups (etc) stuffs and put them back in the 
kprinter menu?

Thanks

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