kdeprint in kde 4

[James Richard Tyrer]

Rick Miles wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009 04:13:11 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>  > Rick Miles wrote:
>  > > My printers are networked
>  >
>  > Sorry but I don't have a network. Do I understand correctly that your
>  > networked printers are setup correctly in CUPS but that they don't show
>  > up in the Qt print dialog widget?
> Yes, there are two printers connected to the server, one prints only b/w 
> the other is colour and lists 3 times: b/w at high dpi, colour at low 
> dpi for drafts and higher dpi for quality. Cups was set up correctly and 
> there were no problems prior to upgrade on this box. My daughter's 
> machine is still running kde 3.5.9 and has no problems.
> 
> 
> In all applications kde or not 4 printers show up as printer options 
> with the exception of firefox but that is probably a seperate issue,
> 
> 
> Is there a qt widget other than the one accessed through the edit-print 
> menu? I was thinking of something I used to put in quicklaunch in kde 
> 3.5 but there is nothing listed in my select widgets widget. My daughter 
> won't be up for a couple more hours so I can't check her machine but I 
> remember one that would list all the printers and have some tabs for 
> things like jobs and instances in instance one could print test page. I 
> think that was called kprintmanager or something like that. The other 
> was kprinter and that could be entered into the printer command box for 
> printer setups on earlier versions of aps like xpaint firefox and O.O.org.
> 
> 
>  > That would be a Qt bug. Do you have
>  > Qt-4.4.3 installed? This is the newest version that will work with
>  > KDE-4.2.
> 
> 
> That's a darn good question....
> rick at rick:~$ ls /var/log/packages/ | grep qt
> dbus-qt3-0.70-i486-2
> qt-r912655-i486-1
> qt3-3.3.8b-i486-opt1
> rick at rick:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/qt-r912655
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 2009-02-19 09:14 /usr/lib/qt-r912655 -> qt/
> 
> 
> However, when I look into /usr/lib/qt/lib a typical listing would be:
> <snip> libQtGui.so -> libQtGui.so.4.4.3*
> 
> 
> Slack Current changelog says:
> Wed Jan 21 17:27:37 CST 2009
> Upgraded to KDE 4.2rc1 (4.1.96) in /testing.
> 
> 
> So why is there a qt3.something in /usr/lib and not qt-4.something?
> 
You still need Qt-3 installed for older applications.

It lists: "qt-r912655-i486-1" which would be a Qt-4 SVN snapshot.  I 
suggest that you upgrade/change to the actual qt-4.4.3 release if possible.

-- 
JRT




___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.