I talked with Martin Pitt about this issue on IRC and he tells that if Browsing/Broadcasting is on by default users could see printers in the application's print dialog whose location is not known to them and they could accidentally print to such unknown printers.
You can turn on Browsing and broadcasting via the "Global Settings" menu in the gnome-cups-manager (Desktop menu: System -> Preferences). -- 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
