Future of KPrinter

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>> Yes, but that's something that should be set up in the print
>>> configuration system.  It's not something the applications themselves
>>> should be doing.
>> What about me, the user who notices the fuckup, and wants to
>> correct it??
>
> That's exactly the point: the user should be correcting it, not the 
> application.

OK, maybe I misunderstood, and maybe I still do. What arrived in my
brain amounted to "we don't need to support margins in kprinter, no-
body really uses them".

> Why should the application developer decide to use different margins if he 
> doesn't even know what kind of printer will be used with his application?

Not sure what your question means (quoting the "developer"). What
I care about is that the user can select margins where it makes sense
to him. The user should be able to impose margins his documents uses,
and I don't understand how this can happen if the application develo-
per doesn't support this feature in the application he develops (and
if he doesn't tell the print system about it, or if he doesn't take
into account what the print system tells him about supported margin
ranges).

> Setting the margins is a feature for the printing system, but not 
> necessarily an API for the class.

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Kurt Pfeifle
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