Works as designed ? It is broken by default - that is bad. Consider ether removing the hplip gui or make it work. Anything other is an ugly hack.
** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu) Status: Rejected => Needs Info -- [Feisty]hplip toolbox: PyQt/Qt initialization error https://launchpad.net/bugs/81047 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs