From kde-core-devel Mon Sep 03 20:49:18 2007 From: "Jos Poortvliet" Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:49:18 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Printing in KDE4 (Was: Fwd: Re: Requesting feature freeze Message-Id: <5c77e14b0709031349r6f21edddh1c859d9aa2d5dbd () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118885260205094 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------=_Part_15600_14308467.1188852558102" ------=_Part_15600_14308467.1188852558102 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/3/07, Christopher Blauvelt wrote: > > Ditto Yeah. The KDE 3 printing stuff is pretty amazing, imho. It's very complete, featurefull and not hard to use. If you compare it to the mess on other platforms, where the printing capabilities mainly depend on the printer (eg each printer a different dialog, how bad is that) KDE does a pretty good job. On 9/3/07, John Layt wrote: > > > > On Monday 03 September 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > On Monday 03 September 2007, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > > > The big problem is probably not that it is broken. Like everything > > that > > > > has been ported to KDE4 it can be fixed. > > > > > > do we know what the things that need to be fixed are? > > > > > > > No, the big problem is that is has > > > > been abandoned and needs love, it needs a lot of love to become sexy > > > > again. > > > > > > right. > > > > > > > I am not afraid that printing won't work in KDE4, I am only afraid > > it > > > > won't be better than in KDE3. > > > > > > that's a good point; something for us to perhaps put some > > concentration on > > > for 4.1. get it working for 4.0 (whatever that means) and work on the > > sex > > > for 4.something. > > > > Well, I'm no printing guru, but KPrinter was 1 of 2 reasons I converted > > from > > Gnome all those years ago, and I'd hate to see it take 2nd class > > status. So > > if the afore-mentioned mythical printing guru should happen to appear on > > the > > scene in the next while and is looking for a gopher to fetch and carry > > the > > boring bits, count me in. > > > > John. > > > > -- > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends > > http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > > ------=_Part_15600_14308467.1188852558102 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/3/07, Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt@gmail.com> wrote:
Ditto

Yeah. The KDE 3 printing stuff is pretty amazing, imho. It's very complete, featurefull and not hard to use. If you compare it to the mess on other platforms, where the printing capabilities mainly depend on the printer (eg each printer a different dialog, how bad is that) KDE does a pretty good job.

On 9/3/07, John Layt <johnlayt@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
On Monday 03 September 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2007, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > The big problem is probably not that it is broken. Like everything that
> > has been ported to KDE4 it can be fixed.
>
> do we know what the things that need to be fixed are?
>
> > No, the big problem is that is has
> > been abandoned and needs love, it needs a lot of love to become sexy
> > again.
>
> right.
>
> > I am not afraid that printing won't work in KDE4, I am only afraid it
> > won't be better than in KDE3.
>
> that's a good point; something for us to perhaps put some concentration on
> for 4.1. get it working for 4.0 (whatever that means) and work on the sex
> for 4.something.

Well, I'm no printing guru, but KPrinter was 1 of 2 reasons I converted from
Gnome all those years ago, and I'd hate to see it take 2nd class status.  So
if the afore-mentioned mythical printing guru should happen to appear on the
scene in the next while and is looking for a gopher to fetch and carry the
boring bits, count me in.

John.

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