Probably default configurations were simply left how Debian made them. What I did when I was at Mandriva was enabling Browsing for remote printers and Broadcasting local printers by default. So the users of small network simply set up a printer on an arbitrary machine and have it available on all machines. So the configuration works out of the box for unexperienced users.
In bigger networks where one wants to select which printer is available where there is usually a system administrator who changes the configuration in the desired way. So I think it is best to have browsing and broadcasting on by default. The default configuration should address best the unexperienced user, as the experts will change it to their needs anyway. The unexperienced user calls the support or reports a bug as he does not know that this system behavior is configurable and how to configure it. Strange here is that kprinter sees the remote printer and OpenOffice.org not. I assume that both use the CUPS API (I know that kprinter uses it) and so they should list the same printers. -- kde: Openoffice doesn't see remote cups printers, just generic printer https://launchpad.net/bugs/68256 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
