KDEPrint on other *NIX platforms.

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Monday 24 March 2003 16:19, Nick Bartolotti wrote:


> 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).

Well, all that KDEPrint is is a front end to CUPS (and other print spoolers=
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such as lpr, though CUPS is best).

> 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.

There's nothing you installing Qt and KDE on Solaris.

And when you install KDE on Solaris it most definitely does not link to=20
Motif/CDE etc.

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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