<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Maiandra GD'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 05 March 2009 06:03:46 James Richard Tyrer wrote:<br>
> Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> > On Thursday 05 March 2009 04:13:11 James Richard Tyrer wrote:<br>
> > > Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> > > > My printers are networked<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Sorry but I don't have a network. Do I understand correctly that your<br>
> > > networked printers are setup correctly in CUPS but that they don't<br>
> > > show up in the Qt print dialog widget?<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, there are two printers connected to the server, one prints only b/w<br>
> > the other is colour and lists 3 times: b/w at high dpi, colour at low<br>
> > dpi for drafts and higher dpi for quality. Cups was set up correctly and<br>
> > there were no problems prior to upgrade on this box. My daughter's<br>
> > machine is still running kde 3.5.9 and has no problems.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > In all applications kde or not 4 printers show up as printer options<br>
> > with the exception of firefox but that is probably a seperate issue,<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Is there a qt widget other than the one accessed through the edit-print<br>
> > menu? I was thinking of something I used to put in quicklaunch in kde<br>
> > 3.5 but there is nothing listed in my select widgets widget. My daughter<br>
> > won't be up for a couple more hours so I can't check her machine but I<br>
> > remember one that would list all the printers and have some tabs for<br>
> > things like jobs and instances in instance one could print test page. I<br>
> > think that was called kprintmanager or something like that. The other<br>
> > was kprinter and that could be entered into the printer command box for<br>
> > printer setups on earlier versions of aps like xpaint firefox and<br>
> > O.O.org.<br>
> ><br>
> > > That would be a Qt bug. Do you have<br>
> > > Qt-4.4.3 installed? This is the newest version that will work with<br>
> > > KDE-4.2.<br>
> ><br>
> > That's a darn good question....<br>
> > rick@rick:~$ ls /var/log/packages/ | grep qt<br>
> > dbus-qt3-0.70-i486-2<br>
> > qt-r912655-i486-1<br>
> > qt3-3.3.8b-i486-opt1<br>
> > rick@rick:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/qt-r912655<br>
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 2009-02-19 09:14 /usr/lib/qt-r912655 -> qt/<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > However, when I look into /usr/lib/qt/lib a typical listing would be:<br>
> > <snip> libQtGui.so -> libQtGui.so.4.4.3*<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Slack Current changelog says:<br>
> > Wed Jan 21 17:27:37 CST 2009<br>
> > Upgraded to KDE 4.2rc1 (4.1.96) in /testing.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > So why is there a qt3.something in /usr/lib and not qt-4.something?<br>
><br>
> You still need Qt-3 installed for older applications.<br>
><br>
> It lists: "qt-r912655-i486-1" which would be a Qt-4 SVN snapshot. I<br>
> suggest that you upgrade/change to the actual qt-4.4.3 release if possible.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>OK fair enough, I don't wory to much about gui's, just use them and script or doodle sometimes in C.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I'm using Slack-12.2 and at this point it is still possible to upgrade to KDE 4.2 using the KDE-4.2 packages in current/testing. At this time curent is still backwards compatable with 3rd party kde aps compiled on the stock 12.2 system but a note in the Changelog says that this will not be so later on down the track in the development cycle.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I'm not sure I feel like compiling my own QT of KDE so I'll wait and sort out my problems in the interim. I usually don't run Current but maybe I'll do a complete upgrade when everything bumops up to the appropriate notch.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks for the interest.<br>
-- <br>
Cheers,<br>
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