KDEPrint on other *NIX platforms.

[Nick Bartolotti]

Mattias & Kurt,

Thank you for your responses.

Since I'm not a seasoned UNIX expert, please correct me where I am wrong
in the next statements.

We wrote a C++ class library that wrapped the CUPS API and planned on
using it as a middle tier between a GUI and the lower-level printing
sub-system (CUPS).  We were planning on using this class to support a
specific printer (although, in theory, it could support any printer).
We did this because CUPS is supported on Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris, our
three target systems.

Later, we found KDEPrint essentially does what we want which is why we
started investigating its possible use on other platforms (HP-UX and
Solaris).

>From this investigation, it seems that the desktop environment's GUI
library must match the library used for the GUI apps.  For Redhat, I
have read that GNOME and KDE apps are mostly compatible, but for Solaris
and HP-UX, the default desktop environment is CDE.  My guess is that any
GUI app that I want to run under CDE must be linked against the CDE
libraries (whatever they are) as opposed to the Qt libraries.

I think the other option is Motif, but I'm not sure where Motif fits
into the picture.


Thanks,
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Pfeifle [mailto:kpfeifle@danka.de]=20
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 8:52 AM
To: kde-print@mail.kde.org
Subject: Re: KDEPrint on other *NIX platforms.

Matthias Posseldt wrote:

> On Saturday 22 March 2003 00:25, Nick Bartolotti wrote:
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>>We'd like to use KDEPrint/CUPS as the recommended solution but I could
>>not find if this is a legal combination on the OSes other than Linux.
I
>>understand that CUPS will work on HP/Solaris, but did not find
anything
>>about KDEPrint working on these OSes.

KDE (and all its programs) are (in theory) designed to work an all
common
*NIX-platforms. Ready-made packages for Sun Solaris do exist, made by
people using KDE (binary packages are normally not offered by the KDE
project itself, they only distribute the sourcecode).

>>My assumption is that KDEPrint uses Qt or some other window library
and
>>for it to work on HP/Solaris it needs to be ported to use CDE.

KDE and KDEPrint use Qt.

> No, since QT is a complete widget library and more KDEPrint hasn't to
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> ported to CDE. The first step is install QT, the second step is to
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> KDE. KDE is cross-platform too, so there should be no problem.
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> I don't know about binary packages for these platforms, but they most=20
> certainly exist somewhere on the net.

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php

This is a relatively new site, aiming at offering all sorts of Free
Software
for Solaris (i86 and SPARC).

They have Qt-3.1.1 and aRts-1.1 ready and I expect the kdelibs and
kdebase
packages (containing KDEPrint) to show up soon.

The ingenious thing is that the have developed a "dpk-get" tool similar
to
the famous "apt-get" of Debian.

http://sunrpms.maraudingpirates.org/ also has KDE packages made.

Make sure you stick to one of the two -- I don't know if they
interoperate
well (library dependencies...)

> But building its own packages from=20
> source isn't difficult either.

Hmmm-hmmmm.... sometimes you need to tweak quite a few things....

> You may want to ask a local sysadmin if you=20
> can't do that task.
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> Ciao, Matthias
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