Bug 150428

Summary:	default system print settings not available to Kate, KWrite, Kedit
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeprint	Reporter:	fred <heep>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description fred 2007-10-02 22:28:43 UTC

Version:           2.5.6 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Having configured the printer via System->Printing for LAN CUPS LJ4050; Paper=Letter, plain, tray2, flip on long edge; Advanced=Duplex (checked).  Tested settings with various apps like OOo & Adobe PDF Reader7 - their File->Print options menu correctly reflects the system's predefined settings (or their properties can be adjusted to suit without complaint) and properly prints in duplex mode.

When using Kate 2.5.6, KWrite 4.5.6, Kedit 1.3/KDE3.5.6, their File->Print always defaults to Page Size=A4, Paper Type=none, Duplex=none.  When manually adjusting for Letter, Plain, Duplex=long, portrait, I consistently get an error message "Some options selected are in conflict. You must resolve these conflicts before continuing. See Driver Settings tab for detailed information."  Checking the driver tab settings, it claims that the duplex unit isn't installed.

The editor application Gedit does work properly.

Comment 1 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2007-12-11 16:53:38 UTC

I suspect this is an issue in kdelibs, but I'm not entirely sure. Since I can't easily reproduce in my setup, could you try the same with konqueror (any HTML page), and perhaps kmail? This way we could rule out it is related to kate/katepart directly, and assign to the correct people.

Comment 2 Anders Lund 2007-12-12 22:44:36 UTC

Kate is using the standard KDE printing system.

Comment 3 fred 2007-12-18 20:03:33 UTC

Hi Thomas,

Thanks much for your comments - this was helpful in tracking the problem.

The scoop is that Kubuntu desktop was installed overtop of Ubuntu 
Feisty.  Using the K-Menu, I selected System->Printing to install and 
configure the LJ4050.  From your comments, it now appears that this K-Menu 
item only affects the Gnome apps which appeared to work OK.  So, I tried 
K-Menu->System Settings->Printers.  The LJ4050 was on the list of available 
printers in the Printers-System Settings window.

OK - herein lies the point of confusion.  In the Printers-System Settings 
window, by left-clicking Laserjet-4050 from the available printer list, the 
lower half of the window shows the tabs "Information, Jobs, Properties, 
Instances".  When selecting "Properties" tab, one can't see any of the 
printer's default settings, such as paper type, tray, duplex, & so on.  I 
assumed (falsely) that these were picked up from the settings I had 
configured from K-Menu->System->Printing.  Now that I've poked around on 
this further, by right-clicking the desired printer from the available list 
in the Printers-System Settings window, this allows access to the config 
details I needed.  Once these were changed here, the other KDE apps appear 
to pick-up these settings.

Is there a reason why these config details can't be viewed/altered from the 
"Properties" tab in the lower half of the Printers-System Settings 
window?  Also, as it appears the K printing system is collecting some of 
the definitions from a Gnome configured printer, why can't KDE pick up all 
Gnome default printer settings as well?  Having poorly defined/labelled 
menu items and multiple GUI paths of configuration is quite confusing & 
misleading.

Cheers!

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At 07:53 2007/12/11, you wrote:
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Comment 4 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:37:52 UTC

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