AW: [Kde-print-devel] Status of KDEprint in 4.0, and offer of help

[Tom Albers]

At Thursday 06 September 2007 11:22, you wrote:
> One missing point:
> 
> KPrintDialogPage does not now anything about windows printer, so people 
> may think that using QPrintDialog would help.
> This helps to be able to select windows printers and all the other stuff 
> like page selecting, page format and so on, but does not support 
> application specific printer dialog extending (like umbrello does for 
> diagram selecting) because QPrintDialog on win32 uses the native 
> Printing Dialog  (PRINTDLG Api function).

Hi, 

Which raises the question: do win32 users not see a native dialog with the current print setup?

I'm still not convinced we should not use QPrintDialog, it would save us a lot of problems in the future. How often is the current print dialog extended by application specific things? Is this worth wrapping QPrinter instead of inherit it? 
Maybe we could make a list and ask our Norwegian friends to have a look at that (pre/post hooks, add a custom widget*, ?).
Since there seems to be no developer interested in maintaining the code over time, I feel we should make it as maintainance free as we can get it.

Toma
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