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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Future of KPrinter
From:       Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date:       2007-09-09 13:40:58
Message-ID: 46E3F7EA.3040302 () gmx ! net
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Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sunday 09 September 2007 12:50:50 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>> That's exactly the point: the user should be correcting it, not the
>>> application.
>> OK, maybe I misunderstood, and maybe I still do. What arrived in my
>> brain amounted to "we don't need to support margins in kprinter, no-
>> body really uses them".
>
> I recall we (you and I) had this confusion before; what you 
> call 'kprinter' is something quite different from this thread means with 
> it.
>
> The KPrinter (note the capitalization) C++ class is the KDE equivalent of 
> the QPrinter one. 

I always noted that capitalization  :-)   And I assumed that the named
C++ class is a core element of what makes up "kprinter" for the user
(...and replacing it with what Qt provides was reducing kprinter's
feature list quite heavily -- otherwise, why don't I see most of the
stuff I'd need in Qt Assistant's print dialog?).

>  And we should get rid of the KDe one.
> This has little to no effect on the user-perceived functionality of the 
> kdeprint package as a whole.

If you manage to do that: great!

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Kurt Pfeifle
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