KDE Print porting - help needed

[Alex Merry]

On Wednesday 10 Oct 2007, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 22:02:09 Alex Merry wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 Oct 2007, John Layt wrote:
> > > P.S. Once we're done, I'd recommend moving kdeprint and the kcm
> > > into extragear or playground rather than kdebase.  That would
> > > allow it to have a separate release outside the normal KDE
> > > schedule once it's fixed, and distros can still include it if
> > > they want.
> >
> > I think that's an excellent idea.
> >
> > Does anyone object to moving the kdeprint kcm to playground?  We
> > need leave libkdeprint until at least trunk/KDE is free from
> > references to it.
> >
> > Alex
>
> Why should the kcm be moved to playground, it's still usefull without
> KPrinter, isn't it ? It's an easy way to configure cups (better than
> the cupsd webinterface anyways)

Because it doesn't work, and isn't likely to be fixed before 4.0.  It's 
also not _essential_ for KDE 4.0, at least IMHO, and so shouldn't be 
considered a showstopper for KDE 4.0.

Alex



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