On 9/1/07, Louai Al-Khanji <louai.khanji@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 01 September 2007 23:24:35 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 September 2007 00:18:54 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?
> >
> > About 30% [+/- 40 %] or so of it work as intended and the source, while
> > apparently structured reasonably well, is just a whole lot of code. This
> is
> > why nobody stepped up to fix it, apparently. It looks just too daunting.
> > Printing (with all the options and backends) itself is nontrivial, so...
> > there seems to be no way around putting a whole lot of effort into it.
> And
> > it doesn't help that most developers are busy getting their own stuff
> > release ready.
> > The more obscure parts of KDEPrint didn't even work right in KDE 3, at
> > least for me. Double sided printing and so on - good luck... I had to
> use
> > Acrobat Reader and printing to PDF from there to do this.
> > So we are, basically, screwed until an experienced developer with enough
> > time appears out of the blue.
> >
> > > Aurélien
>
> For the record, double sided printing worked fine for me with several
> printers
> in KDE3, right out of the box.


Yeah, printing in KDE3 is pretty cool, and it works great for me... I hope
it can at least work as well in KDE 4.

Louai
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