printer-applet in kdeutils

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:34:31AM +0200, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > > printer-applet needs moved from kdebase, ok to put it in kdeutils?
> > >
> > > What does printer-applet do exactly? Wouldn't kdeadmin be more suited
> > > perhaps, as it is the module for "Tools for system administration"? That
> > > would be Nicolas to ask, then.
> >
> > It shows what's printing on a your printers, printer status (e.g. low
> > on ink) and autoconfigures printers that have been plugged in by users.
> >
> > No administration about it, that'll come later and be separate.
> 
> Hard to tell if something is just a user or an admin task, especially with 
> autoconfig. Usually printers are per system, and not per user. I guess it 
> will show print jobs from all users?
> 
> But by definition KDE Admin is for "packages that usually only a system
> administrator might need", so well, this one is also needed by a plain user. 
> So may printer-applet be a new KDE Util, welcome. :)
> As long as the dependency on kdebindings is optional for the rest of the 
> module, which it is, or?

I've moved it in.  The pykde dependency is optional, if you don't have
it installed at compile time it won't install kde-utils-devel, or you
can set -DINSTALL_PRINTER_APPLET=TRUE to tell it to install anyway
(since pykde is a runtime dep not a compile time one).

Jonathan