kprinter support of CUPS 1.2

[Till Kamppeter]

Goffioul Michael wrote:
>>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.
> 

Yes, I understood it this way, I only wanted to help George and Cristian 
  to get started implementing the changes on the PPD parser.

    Till