Printer support in KDE 4.3

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> 1) Whether a "kdeprint" like application has been integrated to allow
>>> printer control from legacy apps
>> There is no KPrinter for KDE-4 therefore, there is no "kprinter" command
>> to replace "lpr" in non-KDE apps.
>>
> 
> Should the user then rewrite the scripts with lpr, or can a kprinter
> wrapper for lpr be devised?
> 
The only thing that you need is a link to use existing scripts.

>>> 2) Whether the print dialog has been enhanced to allow for odd-even
>>> page selection that is indispensable to do 2 sided printing on
>>> non-duplexing printers?
>> Developers are saying that this must go into Qt.  This seems like an
>> unrealistic idea to me.
>>
> 
> I found this:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171925
> 
> which is passed off to this:
> http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=219318
> 
> So I filed this:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196303
> 
> 
>> I would like to see a KPrinter that was similar to the print manager in
>> OO (at least add the features, but some people seem to dislike it (I
>> can't figure out why).
>>
> 
> What features, specifically, do you like? Add them to the bug I filed!
> 
The specific feature which I like is that "Properties" allow you to 
completely control printer features based on a PPD file.

-- 
James Tyrer

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