[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 180051] [KDE4] Need a way to have default printer settings

[Milko Krachounov]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051


Milko Krachounov <exabyte at 3mhz.net> changed:

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--- Comment #52 from Milko Krachounov <exabyte 3mhz net>  2011-02-05 22:29:27 ---
How many issues are covered by this bug? I was browsing through similar bug
reports because of issues with duplex printing, and none of them are worded
well enough to figure out if it is the issue that I'm having. The issue with
the default settings (http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6471) is
claimed to be fixed in Qt 4.6.3 which was released about the time when I bought
a printer and I haven't experienced it, but the override for the duplex in
Options doesn't work for me, and I have to set the duplex setting from
Properties -> Advanced -> Double-Sided Printing (this would also be
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6468 I think).

Anyway, the new QPrintDialog is largely inferior to what KDE 3.5 had. First,
this upstream issues that the upstream seems to be largely ignoring, then there
is the lack of a nice application such as kprinter, and lastly I can use
printing filters any more. 

KDE 3.5 allowed me to create booklets and all the crazy stuff with ps filters
such as psnup, etc. None of them worked correctly for me, true, but I was
planning on filing bug reports and/or trying to fix them myself, and I even got
some of them working from the command line. The lack of ps filters is a major
drawback of the new version. I have to learn to make those from the command
line, and store everything in cheat sheets. With KDE 3.5 I could simply create
a new filter that performed exactly what I was interested in, and then share it
with everyone else, etc.

The idea of using an unified printing framework like
org.openprinting.PrintDialog sounds really nice, but what about creating
KDEPrintDialog that supports all the features kprinter did that I listed above
*and* provides the org.openprinter.PrintDialog dbus interface at the same time?
:) I'm personally voting for that path, if it is possible at all.

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