Future of KPrinter

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sunday 09 September 2007 15:58:33 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>>> otherwise, why don't I see most of the
>>>> stuff I'd need in Qt Assistant's print dialog?).
>>> You're missing the part where the Assistant's print dialog is
>>> improved.
>> Yes, I'm missing it indeed.
>
> Its what this thread is about; go back to the beginning and read that the 
> idea is to remove KPrinter BUT make sure no functionality is lost.
> So if you can help out iterating the functionality in kdeprint right now, 
> we can make sure that its again there soon enough.
>

In a way I did that already, when I wrote:

>> If you want to get a glimpse, look at all the "WhatsThis?" help hints in
>> kprinter. (Last time I looked they were not present in KDE4's kprinter
>> -- not sure if they all were scrapped during the port, or just disabled.
>> So, to see them, use kprinter from KDE3).
>>     

and:

>> They'll show you also in most cases which CUPS commandline print option
>> a specific GUI control in kprinter maps to.
>>
>> The "Properties" button in the Qt assistant's print dialog displays the
>> same thing that the "Drivers" tab in kprinter provides: it reads the
>> PPD from CUPS and displays the user-selectable options.
>>
>> The "General", "Text", "Images" and "HP/GL2" tabs are there because they
>> provide support for features that are in CUPS.
>>
>> Most the content from the "expandable" part of the frontup kprinter dialog
>> (Copies, Advanced Options, Additional Tags) is there, because it provides
>> support for features that are in CUPS.
>>
>> Most the content from what comes up behind the "System Options" button is
>> there, because support for CUPS...
>>     


I'm not sure what other, better, faster, more efficient way there is to
describe it?

If you tell me in what form it could be presented for your efficient and
fast consumption, I'd even take a day off in the middle or end of next
week, sit down and write it up. If it helps...

> So, relax,[1] let us surprise you. :-)
>
> 1) a big shiny Don't Panic in friendly letters appears right here.
Thanks. :-)
I'm feeling better now, honest.

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