HELP WANTED: kdeprint with GNUlpr

[Patrick Powell]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:27:19PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >I have volunteered to work on kdeprint's LPR support.
> >
> >After a delay in getting my new system up and running -- the only thing 
> >left is to get KOffice-1.3 working -- I will get started on this.
> >
> >The most important thing is to get the kjobviewer to work.  The code 
> >looks basically OK, so this is a debugging issue.
> >
> >Then before doing any more, the question is.  Do we want LPR support?
> >
> >The GNUlpr project is currently inactive. :-(  Therefore, if we are 
> >going to have LPR support, KDE is going to have to adopt the project and 
> >fork it.  To do this, we need an ace C++ coder (I am an ace programmer 
> >but a C++ newbie) to get the current code release:
> 
> Why don?t you use LPRng (http://www.lprng.com/)? It is absolutely 
> compatible to LPD, it is under active development, much more secure, 
> integrates better with Foomatic (http://www.linuxprinting.org/), has 
> bi-di support (printer status check, page accounting with hardware 
> counter, ...), will sone ghav propagation of printer capability 
> information from servers to clients via PPD files (similar to CUPS), ...
> 
>    Till

I actually did some work on this a while ago.

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