KPrintDialog?

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Tue Oct 23 09:44:14 BST 2007


On 23.10.07 10:42:27, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On 10/22/07, Harri Porten <porten at froglogic.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, John Layt wrote:
> >
> > > We will probably return to our own KPrintDialog in 4.1 to get the KDE dialog
> > > goodness back, but to implement one for 4.0 would mean we lock ourselves into
> > > some possibly wrong and irreversible decisions on implementation.  Better to
> > > wait and see how Qt 4.4 turns out and how/if we can wrap that to get what we
> > > want, or if we head off in a different direction.
> >
> > Not sure I can follow. What I propose is more open and future-safe than
> > what we have now. Whatever printing or preview feature appears in Qt 4.4
> > we can build in once its there. And at the same time we can add whatever
> > we like for e.g. 4.0.1.
> >
> > > Yeah, it sucks for 4.0 that it is not so friendly, but that's the least
> > > of our worries really.
> >
> > Looks like a self-made suckiness with a simple solution to me.
> 
> I'd love to see patches, but freeze is very soon. Maybe you can ensure
> we can fix this after 4.0 hits the streets with a separate KPrinter
> release or something - let the apps look if it's there, if not use
> QPrinter, if KPrinter is there, use it... ???

You're mixing things here. The question was for a KPrintDialog, not for
a KPrinter. Thats two different things AFAIK.

Andreas

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