[kde-linux] Kprinter, kcmshell printers cannot access CUPS

[David Baron]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 13:00, kde-linux-request at kde.org wrote:
> > KDE3,5.5 konstructed.
> >
> > Any ideas?
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> KDE 3.5.5 has a nasty bug regarding polling the CUPS server, that could be
> the bug you're seeing. Perhaps your distribution has updates available, or
> you have to wait for 3.5.6 (or compile the patched source yourself of
> course)

I haven't checked out the bugzilla, but as I posted elsewhere, enabling 
sharing of the printer list by CUPS fixes the problem. How this option was 
not checked before, well--never looked at it. KDE probably has some 
permission problem for this fix to work.