Printing in KDE4 (Was: Fwd: Re: Requesting feature freeze exemption for Gwenview)

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 02 September 2007 12:48:40 Tom Albers wrote:
> Op za 1 sep 2007 22:24 schreef Andreas Hartmetz <ahartmetz at gmail.com>:
> > So we are, basically, screwed until an experienced developer with
> > enough time appears out of the blue.
>
> Hmm. This is  a big problem. I dont think we can do a final release
> without some sort of working printing support.
>
> I'm not so familiar with QPrinter, but maybe it's an idea to fall back
> completely to that or something? I admit I have no clue about the
> consequences. But I'm assuming QPrinter will work. It's better to have
> less functionality but the stuff that is there works, than a completely
> broken system.

This is what KWord does at the moment (with the export to PDF). But that 
means we are missing;
* configuration UIs
* cups etc (since we always print to a file)
* progress reporting during printing in a centralized place.

If someone that is knowledgeable about kdeprints internals can stand up 
and give a detailed way forward, that would be a great start.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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