On 9/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Louai Al-Khanji</b> <<a href="mailto:louai.khanji@gmail.com">louai.khanji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday 01 September 2007 23:24:35 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:<br>> On Saturday 01 September 2007 00:18:54 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:<br>> > Kurt Pfeifle wrote:<br>> > > Aurélien Gâteau wrote:<br>> > >> In the light of the new release schedule, I would like to request a
<br>> > >> feature freeze exemption until Beta3 for Gwenview<br>> > >> (kdegraphics/gwenview). This would give enough time to add the<br>> > >> following:<br>> > >> - Implement printing support
<br>> > ><br>> > > Are you aware that you need to get KDEPrint into shape first,<br>> > > before you can expect reliable printing in $any_application?<br>> ><br>> > Hum... no. I must confess I very rarely print, so I have not tried to
<br>> > print with any KDE4 application. How broken is KDEPrint right now?<br>><br>> About 30% [+/- 40 %] or so of it work as intended and the source, while<br>> apparently structured reasonably well, is just a whole lot of code. This is
<br>> why nobody stepped up to fix it, apparently. It looks just too daunting.<br>> Printing (with all the options and backends) itself is nontrivial, so...<br>> there seems to be no way around putting a whole lot of effort into it. And
<br>> it doesn't help that most developers are busy getting their own stuff<br>> release ready.<br>> The more obscure parts of KDEPrint didn't even work right in KDE 3, at<br>> least for me. Double sided printing and so on - good luck... I had to use
<br>> Acrobat Reader and printing to PDF from there to do this.<br>> So we are, basically, screwed until an experienced developer with enough<br>> time appears out of the blue.<br>><br>> > Aurélien<br><br>
For the record, double sided printing worked fine for me with several printers<br>in KDE3, right out of the box.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, printing in KDE3 is pretty cool, and it works great for me... I hope it can at least work as well in KDE 4.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Louai<br></blockquote></div><br>