[Bug 174744] Button for adding a printer from the print dialog

[John Layt]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174744


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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #3 from John Layt <john layt net>  2008-11-26 00:00:30 ---
Adding such an option to the print dialog can only be done by Qt, no matter
what sub-system gets called to actually add the printer.  The only way we have
to add anything to the dialog is as another tab in the main dialog body, which
I don't think is a good place for it to be, there's too many tabs already and
it's not the obvious place to look for it.  

Ideally, I would add this as an option in the Printer selection combo box, i.e.
where you currently select the printer or to Print to PDF, which is where Mac
OS X has it.  I've previously suggested to Qt that they provide the ability to
add virtual printers to the printer list, such as Print to Fax, so Add Printer
would just be a use case for this feature.  

I'm currently writing some patches to send to Qt for other features (Current
Page, Odd/Even Pages, etc) and if the process is successful then I plan to look
into the virtual printers feature after I do file printing and adding tabs to
printer properties.  Don't look for this in the near future, if it's possible
to do and Qt accept the proposal, I'd say this would be a Qt 4.6 thing in late
2009.  If Qt doesn't go for the proposals, then we would probably look to write
our own dialog again in conjunction with the OpenPrinting initiative.


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