KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 23:33:27 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> Thomas Zander wrote:
>>> Maybe you can look into the following item we have on the TODO;
>>> question:  Can we add a 'virtual printer' to Cups which does nothing
>>> but write to a file in a format like postscript or PDF ?
>> This is possible (even now)
> []
>> Also, for the user it would require to have CUPS installed in the first
>> place, and have it working too, and the daemon started up...
> 
> I would have thought you were the first that would applaud efforts to make 
> cups more mainstream by making it a more core component that more parts 
> depends on :)

No, I'm trying to think of the best (and if possible, most lean) so-
lution to get a specific task done quickly, the most easy way  :-)

> Anyway, you are writing emails too fast.

Hey, it's all I can do for now   :-)

(Damn, had SUSE a working kde4-okular package for PDF viewing, I'd be
playing with that now, and annoy tsdgeos and pinotree with some bug
reports for a change... But they don't.)

> I want to do some hacking and 
> enjoy my evening as well :)  Your mails all have the same tone of doom 
> and helplessness. (which I entirely understand, btw)
> 
> I've said it before, and I'll say it again, this stuff has my and TTs 
> attention.  Consider that I'm one of the largest backers of a printing 
> system that will "just work". I mean, I have just spent 2 years off on my 
> own time writing a word processor. Which is useless without proper 
> printing. :-)  Consider my motivation here.

Yes, KWord suffered most from the 3 major deficiencies in Qt (TrueType
fonts, custom page sizes, PS Level 1 only).

> We have a roadmap, and the manpower to keep to it, which is better then 
> you will have seen in years in kdeprint.

/me keeps hoping and tries to shut up for now (unless he sees more
mails that cause his knee-jerk response alarm to cause his fingers
to type a response).

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Kurt Pfeifle
System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS
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