From kde-core-devel  Fri Aug 31 23:32:50 2007
From: Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:32:50 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Requesting feature freeze exemption for Gwenview
Message-Id: <46D8A522.2090701 () gmx ! net>
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Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>
>> Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>>> In the light of the new release schedule, I would like to request a
>>> feature freeze exemption until Beta3 for Gwenview (kdegraphics/gwenview).
>>> This would give enough time to add the following:
>>> - Implement printing support
>> Are you aware that you need to get KDEPrint into shape first,
>> before you can expect reliable printing in $any_application?
>
> Hum... no. I must confess I very rarely print, so I have not tried to print
> with any KDE4 application. How broken is KDEPrint right now?

I need to travel 40 km (but won't this weekend) in order to be able to
boot into a system with KDE4 (openSUSE-10.2 with Build Service packages).

Last weekend, this system could not even produce "Print to File (PDF)",
let alone print to a real printer. I used my own virtual backend that
writes to files (and doesn't need a real, physical printer), and from
kprinter only 0-byte files (or junk) arrived. I used CUPS-1.2.12,
CUPS-1.3.0 and CUPS from 1.4-SVN with 127.0.0.1:631 network socket or
unix domain socket. None of these combos worked with kprinter, but all
of the CUPS installations worked from the commandline (or with gtklp
and xpp as GUI dialogs).

The applications I tried it with were Kate, Konqueror and "kcmshell
fontinst".

-- 
Kurt Pfeifle
System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS
Infotec Deutschland GmbH  .....................  Hedelfinger Strasse 58
A RICOH Company  ...........................  D-70327 Stuttgart/Germany