From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 14 21:57:41 2007
From: Bart Coppens <kde () bartcoppens ! be>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:57:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting
Message-Id: <200709142357.41746.kde () bartcoppens ! be>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118980704022716

On Friday 14 September 2007 23:51, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> KDE Libs 4.0's printing will work only on Qt 4.3.2 because it will do a
> very ugly hack of modifying QPrintDialog. If you upgrade Qt without
> upgrading KDE, you will very likely lose those extra configuration pages.
> (Which Windows and Mac users won't be seeing anyways)
Wow. This completely defeats the idea of backwards-compatibility.  Purposely 
depending on code of which you know it will be ABI/API-incompatible in the 
next release sounds like a *very* bad idea to me.

Bart