system-config-printer-kde.py crashed with AttributeError in fillMakeList()

Fabien,

Thanks for reporting this. I am able to reproduce this bug. The problem occurs when cups is not running. I was able to reproduce it by manually stopping cups.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Stop Cups 'sudo /etc/init.d/cups
2) Launch system-config-printer-kde
3) choose new printer from the tree in the left panel
4) Click the 'New Printer' button.
5) Under Select Connection the only option is 'other'
6) Enter 'cups-pdf:/' in the device uri box
7) Click Next and observe crash

My terminal output from the debugging session is below:
./system-config-printer-kde.py
Caught non-fatal exception. Traceback:
File "./system-config-printer-kde.py", line 1687, in getPPDs_thread
    c = cups.Connection ()
RuntimeError: httpConnectionEncrypt failed
Continuing anyway..
Caught non-fatal exception. Traceback:
File "./system-config-printer-kde.py", line 1687, in getPPDs_thread
    c = cups.Connection ()
RuntimeError: httpConnectionEncrypt failed
Continuing anyway..
Caught non-fatal exception. Traceback:
File "./system-config-printer-kde.py", line 1905, in nextNPTab
    (status, ppdname) = self.ppds.\
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'getPPDNameFromDeviceID'
Continuing anyway..
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./system-config-printer-kde.py", line 1770, in on_btnNPForward_clicked
    self.nextNPTab()
  File "./system-config-printer-kde.py", line 1922, in nextNPTab
    self.fillMakeList()
  File "./system-config-printer-kde.py", line 2799, in fillMakeList
    makes = self.ppds.getMakes()
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'getMakes'

I'm not sure whether this is really a bug in system-config-printer-kde or a problem with CUPS not being started correctly.

Fabien, ...

A patch for this has been committed to KDE SVN. In the future system-config-printer-kde should show a warning at start up if CUPS is not running

Fix released to Jaunty.