Unable to share printers in Kubuntu Hardy

According to the changelog these were dropped since you can do the same with the graphical frontends.
Doesn't the KDE Print Manager allow you to enable sharing?

cupsys (1.3.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop enable{sharing,browsing} and {sharing,browsing}_status scripts. They
    have never been used in Debian, not used any more in Ubuntu, and the
    current frontends (web, system-config-printer, etc.) do this in a much
    better way.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:23:50 +0100

Riddell, pitti, we should either re-introduce the scripts into CUPS or we should move them to KDE Print. I think we should do the latter, as they are only needed by KDE Print. Perhaps they should evenbe added to KDE Print of KDE 3.x upstream, as a bug fix. KDE Print of KDE 4.x upstream should be fixed by using the same methods as in the web interface or system-config-printer (if not already done). WDYT.

Riddell, note only that even if Hardy ships the new system-config-printer-kde as standard printer setup tool, the KDE Printing Manager should continue working, as many users are used to it.

I'll have to discuss this with the other Kubuntu developers but I think the "share" menu entry patch should be removed from kdeprint and people should use system-config-printer-kde.

Jonathan, as a user that would be fine if the KDE Printing Manager launched system-config-printer-kde when trying to share a printer. It would keep backward capability for familiarity. You could even throw up a message window, stating the deprecation and that system-config-printer-kde will now be started.

  I doubt most users will care how it's done, only that it's done logically & easily. Print Manager is the logical place, to me, to do *all* printer administration.

Last time I discussed that with Jonathan we agreed to remove those hackish scripts from cupsys and that KDE should just use system-config-printer-kde, which does a much better job at configuring. Jonathan, has that changed?

kdeprint doesn't exist anymore in KDE4. system-config-printer-kde is the only option now, and currently takes up residence in System Settings where the KDE3 kdeprint config module was.