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

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 9/3/07, Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ditto


Yeah. The KDE 3 printing stuff is pretty amazing, imho. It's very complete,
featurefull and not hard to use. If you compare it to the mess on other
platforms, where the printing capabilities mainly depend on the printer (eg
each printer a different dialog, how bad is that) KDE does a pretty good
job.

On 9/3/07, John Layt <johnlayt at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 03 September 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 September 2007, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > > > The big problem is probably not that it is broken. Like everything
> > that
> > > > has been ported to KDE4 it can be fixed.
> > >
> > > do we know what the things that need to be fixed are?
> > >
> > > > No, the big problem is that is has
> > > > been abandoned and needs love, it needs a lot of love to become sexy
> > > > again.
> > >
> > > right.
> > >
> > > > I am not afraid that printing won't work in KDE4, I am only afraid
> > it
> > > > won't be better than in KDE3.
> > >
> > > that's a good point; something for us to perhaps put some
> > concentration on
> > > for 4.1. get it working for 4.0 (whatever that means) and work on the
> > sex
> > > for 4.something.
> >
> > Well, I'm no printing guru, but KPrinter was 1 of 2 reasons I converted
> > from
> > Gnome all those years ago, and I'd hate to see it take 2nd class
> > status.  So
> > if the afore-mentioned mythical printing guru should happen to appear on
> > the
> > scene in the next while and is looking for a gopher to fetch and carry
> > the
> > boring bits, count me in.
> >
> > John.
> >
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> >
> >
>
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