Add Rendezvous support to "add printer" wizard

Jakub Stachowski stachowski at hypair.net
Fri Dec 3 22:43:24 CET 2004


Hello,

Attached patch allows "add printer wizard" to automatically find network 
printers supporting Rendezvous protocol and detect name, queue, location, 
description and proper drivers. It relies on kdnssd library - it is not in 
kdelibs yet but i think it will be soon (see thread 
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110192041026735&w=2). 

Following things are not done yet: 
 - capabilities - i'm not sure if it does  makes sense anyway - all these are 
in PPD
- multiqueue printers
- "priority" - for printers that announce support for several protocols (for 
example LPD and IPP) several entries will be displayed instead of selecting 
preferred one
- printer can specify list of accepted mimetypes - how it should be used?

This patch adds listbox with found printers (updated in real time) under list 
of backends. I don't think it is so good, but i don't know kdeprint too well 
and it was best i could come up with for now. Comments will be very 
appreciated.
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