KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Sep 14 19:16:44 BST 2007


On Friday 14 September 2007 19:55:37 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Divendres 14 Setembre 2007, Thiago Macieira va escriure:
> > On Friday 14 September 2007 13:56:45 Alex Merry wrote:
> > > On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > Also, we want to add virtual printers to the print dialog, depending
> > > > on the desktop's configuration. I don't think Qt can provide a
> > > > standard "Send by email" printer, much less a "Send by fax".
> > > >
> > > > This means I don't think we can do without a KPrintDialog wrapping
> > > > around a QPrintDialog. Unless, of course, we made QPrintDialog detect
> > > > KDE and use its settings...
> > >
> > > Actually, I'm not sure we can do it with without creating our own
> > > dialog from scratch.
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> > The big drawback I can see here is that KDE 4.0 will not have print
> > preview.
>
> That is completely unacceptable in my opinion.

Then somebody had better write an alternative. And fast.

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