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JohnieBraaf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-07-10

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KDE - Printer Configuration interface broken

Hi,

I made a clean install of Arch with the KDE desktop environment.
All is working flawlessly, except for the following:

When I try to access the printer configuration under the systemsettings menu, i get the following error screen:

I have installed CUPS successfully. Moreover, I'm able to print a test page from http://localhost:631/admin/

If I run the systemsettings menu from terminal, I get the following messages:

systemsettings(2532)/python (plugin): Error while running factory function for Python plugin:  "system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py" 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 18, in kpythonpluginfactory_bridge
  File "/usr/share/apps/system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py", line 4004, in CreatePlugin
    kcm = u.makeui(component_data, widget_parent)
  File "/usr/share/apps/system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py", line 128, in makeui
    self.ui = PyKcm(component_data, parent, self)
  File "/usr/share/apps/system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py", line 104, in __init__
    uic.loadUi(APPDIR + "/" + "system-config-printer.ui", self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line 177, in loadUi
    return DynamicUILoader().loadUi(uifile, baseinstance)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py", line 24, in loadUi
    return self.parse(filename, os.path.dirname(filename))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 119, in dirname
    i = p.rfind('/') + 1
AttributeError: 'QString' object has no attribute 'rfind'
systemsettings(2532)/python (plugin): Failed to import module 
systemsettings(2532)/kcontrol KCModuleLoader::loadModule: This module has no valid entry symbol at all. The reason could be that it's still using K_EXPORT_COMPONENT_FACTORY with a custom X-KDE-FactoryName which is not supported anymore

What could be causing this inconvenience? I find it highly unlikely that I'm the only one with this problem, so please check if its working for you...

Last edited by JohnieBraaf (2010-07-26 22:25:27)

JohnieBraaf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-07-10

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Re: KDE - Printer Configuration interface broken

Could somebody with KDE installed on Arch please check if this is a general problem, or that this is specific for my setup?

Otherwise, I can file a bug in the bug-tracker.

mythus

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Registered: 2008-05-15

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Re: KDE - Printer Configuration interface broken

I have the same problem in KDE, howeverI always tend to use the CUPS online page anyways, epesically since I use multiple environments and such.

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JohnieBraaf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-07-10

Posts: 15

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Re: KDE - Printer Configuration interface broken

Thank you,

then it must be a general bug. I wonder if its even Arch specific.

Certainly the configuration interface is kind off obsolete with the nice CUPS web interface available.

I think  kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde is the package that is broken.

Last edited by JohnieBraaf (2010-07-27 02:03:48)