Will there be a standalone "kprinter4" dialog in KDE4? (was: Re: KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting)

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Fri Sep 14 21:41:01 BST 2007


Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> As most of you are aware (or are you not?), a big chunk of the useful-
>> ness of kprinter in KDE3 stems from the fact that you could run it as
>> a standalone app.


> Any KDE application can use the printing system available in kdelibs, even a 
> commandline application,
> 
> Based on the general use case, I think it might best be done through a special 
> mode for Okular.
> It can read/import loads of formats and it will support printing anyway. 
> Probably mostly a question of adding reading from stdin and going right into 
> print mode.

Sorry, I don't understand your first paragraph. Especially not in the
context of the one you quoted.

I also don't comprehend your second one. Nor your third.


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