Printing in KDE-4

[James Richard Tyrer]

John Layt wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 21:14:42 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>  > There is nothing in the Control Center (System Settings) and the menu 
> item:
>  >
>  > System -> Printing
>  >
>  > simply crashes with the error:
>  >
>  > File "/usr/KDE-4/bin/system-config-printer-kde", line 63, in <module>
>  > import cups
>  > ImportError: No module named cups
>  >
>  > So, there is a need for some KPrint project no matter how small because
>  > there needs to be a KCM to set the print command at the minimum. This
>  > could probably be added to Default Applications.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> That looks like a packaging error in your distro, you need the PyQt4, 
> PyKDE, PyCups, and system-config-printer packages installed for the new 
> Printing KCM in kdeadmin 4.2 to work. The new Printing KCM (aka 
> system-config-printer-kde) is a frontend developed by Kubuntu to the 
> system-config-printer printing configuration backend that is now jointly 
> developed by Red Hat, Ubuntu and Mandriva and is shipped by most distros 
> and is also used by Gnome. There is now little reason for us to develop 
> our own management backend when there is a community and industry 
> consensus on a common backend.

It would appear that I have "system-config-printer" installed. 
Actually, it would be the KDE version that comes with KDE.

IIUC, then we don't have to reinvent the wheel but just make minor 
modifications to it so that it could be used without CUPS.

Actually, with some research, I find that I do not need to set the 
printer command to print (although I am not sure if I would be able to 
choose printers if I had two connected).

It appears that I was able to print from Okular, so it would appear that 
this is a bug.

Still, there needs to be some way to configure printers and to select 
options based on the contents of a PPD file.

-- 
JRT