Munich Sprint

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday, April 21, 2016 09:58:35 PM John Layt wrote:
> On 18 April 2016 at 20:58, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
> > That would be kprinter. Credative / Limux had a replacement for KDE4
> > called kprinter4 (part of which is a poorly-attributed fork of some
> > code I wrote for Okular):
> > 
> > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KPrinter4?content=163537
> > https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kprinter4.git
> > 
> > It's in playground, been meaning to have a poke at it to see if it's
> > still of any use. AFAIK though it only works on postscript files and
> > relies on very old tools like poster, but it shouldn't take much to
> > generalise it for all file types supported by CUPS, and to update to
> > more modern PDF-based tools. Add in a Dolphin service for a context
> > menu print option and it's done. Perhaps a small porting project for
> > someone to bring it into Plasma5?
> 
> So I spent a couple of hours writing a new one with correct copyrights
> on it, basically my Okular code ported to Qt5 and wrapped in a command
> line call. Pretty basic so far but takes a filename or shows the file
> dialog, then shows the print dialog, then sends it to the printer.
> Lots of polishing required, Linux/CUPS only, yadda yadda, but if
> there's interest I'll try finish it this weekend and put it up for
> review. Any suggestions where this should live?

kdeutils, perhaps?
-- 
sebas

http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org