Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kdeprint
When trying to install an HP 4250 printer, I ran into what I believe was
a bad PPD file (see bug#64238). However, this apparently bad PPD file
was made worse by the behavior of the KDE print system. While trying to
install the printer, KDE's printer configuration utility would give an
error related to the bad PPD file. However, I had no problem installing
the printer from Gnome using Gnome's tools (this was before I knew that
the PPD file was bad).
After that point, the printer would show up fine in KDE, but the "Driver
Settings" tab would be absent from the print properties dialog box.
That's what I would expect if KDE couldn't read the PPD file.
The problem was that once KDE tried to read the bad PPD file for this
printer, the "Driver Settings" tab would disappear from _all_ of my
configured printers, not just the HP 4250. This is most noticable while
running the System Settings utility. Closing System Settings completely
would "fix" the problem until I tried to access the 4250 printer
settings dialog again.
Now that I understand it, it's not the end of the world, but it sure was
confusing not to be able to set the Driver Settings for any printer.
Thanks for your work on Ubuntu!
Scott Thatcher
** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Reading a bad PPD file causes KDE not to read _any_ PPD file
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64244
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