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

[Ralf Habacker]

Tom Albers schrieb:
> 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?
>   
no, the kde provides pint setup page is displayed.
> I'm still not convinced we should not use QPrintDialog, it would save us a lot of problems in the future. 
May me my statement was a little unclear: QPrintDialog would be a good 
choice, but it lacks a few features recent KDE printing api provides. 
Using QPrintDialog on win32 requires to rewrite the native Print Dialog 
because probably it will not be possible to extend the native print 
Dialog or does anyone see such a way ?


Ralf