kprinter does not recognize printer instances

[Michael Sweet]

Frank Thommen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> our CUPS release (1.2.5) seems to store the lpoptions file in ~/.cups/lpoptions as opposed to the earlier ~/.lpoptions.  Unfortunately kprinter (KDE 3.5.5) now doesn't recognize userlevel printer settings and printer instances any more unless the user manually links ~/.lpoptions to ~/.cups/lpoptions.
> 
> Is there a fix/workaround for it?  We are stuck with the KDE and CUPS releases Fedora FC5 delivers with `yum`, therefore manually installing newer KDE releases on all clients it not an option.

I'm not aware of a fix, other than for the KDE folks to stick with
the published APIs...

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