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On Friday 14 September 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Here's the proposal:
> 1) KPrinter goes away
>   It is replaced completely by QPrinter.
>
> 2) KPrintDialog goes away
>   It is replaced with a function in kdeui that creates and returns a
> QPrintDialog. In KDE 4.0 with Qt 4.3, that function will try to set some
> defaults on the QPrinter that is passed as an argument (defaults loaded
> from KDE's configuration). It will also add some extra tabs if it can.
>
>   A new function is also added that allows the addition of extra dialog
> pages. Here's where it is ugly: this function, in KDE 4.0, will work ONLY
> on Qt 4.3.2 on Unix. It will NOT work on Qt 4.3.1 or 4.4.0. It will NOT
> work on Windows or on Mac.
>
>   The KDE 4.1 version of this function -- using Qt 4.4 -- will do the
> proper thing and ask QPrintDialog to add those extra pages in such a way
> that it works in Windows and Mac as well, on their native dialogs.

I am afraid I have a problem understanding this: first you say it will not=
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work with 4.4.0 then you say it will do the proper thing in 4.4?
Unless the proper thing is not to work I this seems to be a contradiction.

> 3) Print to PDF and Print to PS are replaced by menu entries
>   This should probably be provided as a whole "Send To" or "Export to"
> QMenu standard action from kdeui, that we can extend with .desktop files =
or
> whatnot.

Is more resonable than "print" anyway. This is basically a left over from=20
times where this was the only option to add FAX or PDF to applications=20
(especially on Windows where real export is made as difficult as possible t=
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support vendor lock-in)

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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