Bug 129878

Summary:	[KDE4] Print Control Manager: provide rollback feature in case of messed cupsd.conf
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeprint	Reporter:	Scott Couston <alpha096>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description Scott Couston 2006-06-27 01:09:15 UTC

Version:           0.1 (using KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" , SUSE 10.1)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16.13-4-smp

The Defaults and Help button inaccessible. The importance of the defaults button should not be taken lightly. With the easy ability to completely stuff up configuration of Print server and render further modifications inaccessible.
Reproduce: inadvertently changing to user to a non root user results in problem of You dont have access permissions to perform any further configuration changes to Print Server once error has been made.

With so many fields to change, which are not validated it is easy and not reversible to undo stuff ups.

The defaults button needs to be accessible and re-instate default.

Even the destruction of the config file and error message - 'run detection process again' would be of assistance if a default configuration cannot be established.

The help button has no index as previously reported and inaccessible.

Add new bug category "KDE Control/Print Manager"

Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-11 15:18:08 UTC

Confirmed.

Print Control Manager should have a way to revert changes by saving the previous cupsd.conf file into a temporary location.

It should also offer to try and revive a CUPS system that can not start up due to an "impossible" cupsd.conf (maybe by storing a default cupsd.conf template).

Comment 2 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:20:57 UTC

KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived.  Closing all open bugs.