KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Kuba Ober]

On Friday 14 September 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 20:45:11 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > It looses the feature to "print to pdf" for nearly *any* other file type
> > (text, images, PS) when loaded into the standalone kprinter dialog, as it
> > is supported now when you selected "Convert" in the dialog that comes up
> > by printing non-PS files (well, maybe the feature was lost through the
> > bitrotting process in recent 12-18 months, but it used to work fairly
> > well).
> >
> > I'm not complaining -- just want to make sure you're aware what gets lost
> > by the current changes.
>
> Then explain, because I did not understand what you said above.
>
> When is the print dialog shown outside KDE applications?

I regularly use kprinter instead of lpr. Makes life easy and sweet. One wishes 
Windows had something like that. Loosing almost any aspect of kprinter's 
functionaly would make me personally very unhappy.

So, there's one user input, for what it counts.

Cheers, Kuba