[kde-linux] KDE 4.2 ROCKS !

[James Richard Tyrer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009 23:16:58 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> OK, this may work for a printer if you have CUPS installed, but the
>>  physical printer defaults aren't the correct default for printing
>>  to a PDF.
> 
> James, you seem dead set on doing things the hard way.

I regard using CUPS as doing it the hard way (to install a large and
complex print system just to print to printers directly attached to my
PC).  LPR is a much simpler print spooler.  The issue is not the "hard
way", but rather that KDE-4 does not print with LPR.

> To summarize what has gone so far -
> 
> Set up CUPS with ALL your default settings.

IIUC, you are saying that I need to use CUPS to configure KDE-4 defaults.

> Use the new print configuration to handle job settings - anything 
> that differs from default.  Naturally this resets after the job.
> 
> If you insist on doing it another way,

I would much rather not use CUPS since I have (old) applications that
will not print with CUPS.  The Qt-4.4.3 documentation clearly states
that it supports LPR for printing.  However, it appears that KDE-4 does not.

> I'm sorry but there's no more we can do.  This method does work, as 
> many people here will attest.
> 
I will work on this.  I will install CUPS as a last resort.  However,
there are issues with CUPS: there are applications that will not use
CUPS to print and manufacturers "Linux printer drivers" are actually
GhostScript devices which CUPS will not use without using FooMatic
(which is a hack).  Not to mention that the actual PPD files that the
printer manufactures issue are copyright by Adobe.

It is possible that the problem is that KDE-4 requires libcups for
configuration and if this library is installed that it will work.

However, we have global default locale preferences in KDE for a reason.
  All of KDE should use them, otherwise, what is the point?

-- 
JRT