[Kde-print-devel] Re: Print preview in KDE applications (Konqueror)

[Cristian Tibirna]

Hello M. Talbot

All persons that you contacted directly with respect to your inquiry on how to 
submit a bug report for KDE printing preview are in principle reading the kde-
print-devel mailing list. Addressing that mailing list is enough.


On January 22, 2011 12:40:47 Gérard Talbot wrote:
> 1- Print preview is non-existent in KDE applications, at least under
> (latest stable release) Konqueror 4.5.5. Under which product and component
> should I file such bug?

Since the passage to KDE-4, the KDE software compilation doesn't provide an 
own printing platform anymore. KDE applications are using the printing 
facilities offered by Qt. The main reasons are lack of development resources 
and a desire to allow portability of KDE applications to multiple OS 
platforms.

Bug reports about printing should thus be directed to the Qt bugreporting 
system:

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com

> 2- Who is actually taking and tackling bugs with regards to printing at
> KDE? Is there someone? Just asking here...

Unfortunately the development resources for KDE printing development have 
dwindled to almost nill in the last years.

> 3- If money is an obstacle, I am willing to donate a $20. canadian (which
> is now ~= $20. US) in order to get a print preview feature.

Thank you for your stated intention to support KDE monetarily. I don't think 
money was an obstacle with KDE printing, but it is not impossible that 
offering an adequate development bounty might spur renewed interest. Speaking 
for me personnally, I know that right now no amount of financial support 
(short of a fulltime salary) would allow me to free time for this issue.

> 4- If a KDE developer is willing to tackle CSS 2.1 page media [1] bugs and
> support for Konqueror, then I would be willing to give more money.

This is better addressed in an appropriate bugreport  or on browser developers 
mailing list: kfm-devel at kde.org

> thank you for your time,
Thank you for your interest in KDE.

-- 
Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna at kde.org .. http://www.kde.org
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