libkdeprint

[Alex Merry]

On Wednesday 17 Oct 2007, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Alex Merry wrote:
> > cupsdoprint, as far as I can tell, is not essential.  It provides
> > background printing, I believe, via kded.
>
> Without it, there would be no printing in KDE3. It *sends* the job
> (that is, jobfile(s) plus all job settings clicked by the user in the
> old kprinter interface or read from ~/.cups/lpoptions) to cupsd on
> behalf of kprinter. It essentially is a commandline utility...
>
> So for printing files, it is essential in our legacy system.
>
> You probably mean to say that it could be done differently in the fu-
> ture, without a re-use of this (existing, working) code?

Well, the existing, working code could be incorporated in to the 
library, rather than having a separate utility.  I'm not saying this is 
necessarily a good idea, only that it is an option and _may_ be 
simpler.

Alex



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