[Kde-print-devel] [GSoC2007 openprinting.org] Update 03 July 2007

[Gavin Beatty]

I never commented on the screenshot attachment:

It's provided more as an illustration that little work has gone into
it yet. At the moment I'm interested in the functionality - the
presentation can be left for another week ;)

On 03/07/07, Gavin Beatty <gavinbeatty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An update on my progress since last update... update:
>  o  All download issues resolved - KIO is understood and abstracted further
>     still in the new code (with good reason I feel)
>  o  Code is a lot cleaner though there are still naming/namespace issues which
>     are very easy to fix at a later date (the code isn't in kdelibs so it's
>     not _too_ much of an issue either way)
>  o  Parsing is understood well and completed
>  o  The parsing is now done in a separate thread (with a bug where the thread
>     never emits finished() or my custom finished signal - should be simple to
>     fix after some investigation/help)
>  o  I have found some example code in CUPS sources about how to find the
>     actual device-id for use in the Openprinting Query (c.f. lpinfo.c)
>     NB: I have not found this functionality in the KDEPrint api.
>
> We are currently 5 weeks into the GSoC programme proper. I began work (outside
> of setting up an environment) on June 12, technically "missing out" on 2
> weeks of work. I realise that it is up to me to make up for this time and not
> for me to seek allowance on this. Gladly, I am on schedule even without
> taking into account the 2 missing weeks.
> Work has progressed slightly more organically on the first 3 chunks I laid out
> in my [1]Application Abstract. This came about as I wasn't originally sure of
> the model I would like to use (what class does what and when) due to simple
> inexperience with the type of development.
>
> In the next week I will be:
>  o  Ironing out the threading bug
>  o  Testing KIO progress dialog*
>  o  Implementing the device-id GET** and using it in the printer query
>  o  Implementing the v. simple driver XML parsing/downloading
>
> And that is my goal of what to have implemented by Sunday.
>
> After that, I will need to:
>  o  Investigate the use of the [2]alien for converting the openprinting LSB
>     package into the distros preferred format.
>  o  Work on the UI - should it go in the "Add Printer Wizard" etc.?
>  o  Polish the code
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>   [1] http://preview.tinyurl.com/2bn5cl
>   [2] http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
>
> *I haven't had a running kuiserver up to now whenever I run
> kopenprintingdialog and I believe this to be why I have never had a progress
> dialog even though I ask for one in the KIO::get call.
>
> **Either in kdelibs/kdeprint (preferable) or as a tiny hack
>
> ---
> Gavin Beatty
>
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