libkdeprint

Alex Merry huntedhacker at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Oct 17 01:03:14 BST 2007


On Tuesday 16 Oct 2007, John Layt wrote:
> My proposal is a 3 step one:
> 1) This is the proof of concept step.  Write a basic printFiles()
> that takes a QPrinter and a file list, reads the printer name from
> QPrinter, and executes cupsdoprint to send all the files to CUPS. 
> The key thing here is that QPrinter::printerName() provides a name
> usable for CUPS, which it appears to do.

cupsdoprint, as far as I can tell, is not essential.  It provides 
background printing, I believe, via kded.

Of course, that's not to say it isn't a good idea.  Just that I'm not 
sure it's essential.

Alex




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