From kde-core-devel Fri Sep 14 19:01:25 2007 From: Kurt Pfeifle Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:01:25 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Will there be a standalone "kprinter4" dialog in KDE4? (was: Re: Message-Id: <46EADA85.2010702 () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118979668412156 As most of you are aware (or are you not?), a big chunk of the useful- ness of kprinter in KDE3 stems from the fact that you could run it as a standalone app. As a standalone app, kprinter3 is/was able to load a file via a user- driven fileopen dialog, or receive a file/job through a pipe/stdin, or to read a file from disk if given as a commandline parameter. This made it useful for many to print arbitrary files without opening an application (used to work for text, images, PS, PDF). This made it also useful to set kprinter as the printing dialog for non-KDE applications, such as Ooo, acroread, firefox, thunderbird... and even many gnome or motif applications that allow for specifying the print command to be used. With this feature alone, KDE won over some users from competing OSes and desktops. -- Kurt Pfeifle System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS Infotec Deutschland GmbH ..................... Hedelfinger Strasse 58 A RICOH Company ........................... D-70327 Stuttgart/Germany