Reading a bad PPD file causes KDE not to read _any_ PPD file

[Scott Thatcher]

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

[Kieran Hogg (xerosis)]

Hi Scott, thanks for your bug report. Which version of kubuntu were you running? Can you still reproduce this on Feisty?

[Scott Thatcher (thatcher)]

Yes, this still happens in Fiesty. Since the bad ppd files I originally ran
into have been fixed, I had to make my own to test. Again, it's not a serious
problem, but it can be confusing to someone who runs into one bad ppd file.

Scott

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:04:51AM -0000, Kieran Hogg wrote:
> Hi Scott, thanks for your bug report. Which version of kubuntu were you
> running? Can you still reproduce this on Feisty?
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Kieran Hogg
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Reading a bad PPD file causes KDE not to read _any_ PPD file
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64244
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> of the bug.

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Scott Thatcher
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Truman State University
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[Kieran Hogg (xerosis)]

Hi Scott, have you seen this behaviour in anything later than Feisty?

[Scott Thatcher (thatcher)]

It looks like it doesn't happen any more in Gutsy. I tried loading a bad PPD file, and the "Driver Settings" tab still appears.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Reported fixed.
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