system-config-printer-applet-kde in KDE 4.1

Richard Dale rdale at foton.es
Wed Apr 9 18:34:23 BST 2008


On Wednesday 09 April 2008 17:36:56 Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 8. April 2008 schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
> > Qt 4.4 rc 1 has solved the issue with python-dbus and QtDbus so I've
> > converted it to a pyKDE app now.
>
> Does that mean we're getting a hard runtime python dependency for a very
> core task like viewing print jobs?
>
> I object against having a python dependency on that low level. Think ULPCs
> and printing over bluetooth. What's wrong with the KDE3-like print job
> viewer?
It seems a perfect application of python to me - what's your problem? The OLPC 
machine is based almost entirely on python code, and it is most certainly a 
lean mean ULPC.

-- Richard




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