kprinter support of CUPS 1.2

[Goffioul Michael]

> Goffioul Michael wrote:
> > 
> > KDEPrint can support string (not password), float and 
> integer options
> > for Foomatic-2 drivers, not for Foomatic-3 drivers. I never 
> found the
> > time to do it but, it's just a matter of adapting the PPD parser of
> > kdeprint.
> > 
> 
> George, Cristian, if one of you wants to implement it, see XPP 
> (http://cups.sf.net/xpp/) for an example implementation of a Foomatic 
> 3.0 integer/float/string/password GUI frontend. See also the 
> documentation of the Foomatic PPD extensions in the README 
> file of the 
> foomatic-db-engine package.

As I said previously, kdeprint *has* the GUI frontend for those options.
What is missing is the code in the PPD parser to detect such options and
convert the current m_option object into to appropriate one (see
ppdloader.cpp). Currently, the PPD parser sticks to Boolean, PickOne and
PickMany.

Michael.