KPrintDialog?

Jos Poortvliet jospoortvliet at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 17:20:50 BST 2007


On 10/24/07, Harri Porten <porten at froglogic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>
> > I feel like supporting Thomas in this. I don't have any coding powers,
> > of course, so feel free to ignore me. But it just sounds sensible to
> > me - if TT really is comitted to improving printing to a level where
> > it is very much acceptable to KDE, why not let them do their thing?
>
> Not sure you got my point. I did not suggest to bring the killed-off
> technology back immediately but to provide us with a dialog fitting our
> look & feel guide lines (icons, help texts, margings etc.) and having one
> that we can customize in 4.0.x already.

Well, if you can write someting in the next week which is better than
what TT provides, and plays nice with what TT will provide in Qt 4.4
(and is better than that, too), it could go in... But I think it's too
late for 4.0.

> > It's not like they've given us reasons not to trust them... I had a
> > look at the current print dialog in Qt 4.3 - which isn't perfect, nor
> > up to the KDE 3.x standard, BUT it is still rather good.
>
> I'm more of a fan of rewrites that go on in parallel to finally surpass
> what's there before they get in. Taking away things first and letting
> users wait half a year for a replacement is not what I understand to be a
> good service.
>
> Harri.
>




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