Comment # 7 on bug 1048177 from Martin Wilck

Johannes,

Thanks for the link. I can see that it's a difficult problem. In general I
believe being able to start/stop a printer should be possible in the typical
SOHO environment without being root. This is two steps behind adding or
modifying a printer as described in fate#313287, and it's necessary in
particular because of CUPS' default "stop-printer" error policy. (ok, I just
saw that this policy can be changed via the YaST printer dialog).

This goes far beyond the scope of this bz which is about the HPLIP GUI's
erratic behavior. I have to admit that I like that GUI in general, it's way
more useful than the pathetic GNOME printer "configuration" dialog. But it's
bad that it offers functionality that doesn't work on most standard
configurations (such as "start/stop printer", and it's worse that it hangs
rather than displaying an error dialog if something goes wrong.

Martin