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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 2.2beta1
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-28 11:01:27
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On Wednesday 28 March 2001 08:41, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> > I especially would like to hear about the status of the following issues:
> >
> > * dom2 event stuff
> > * new kio-slave configuration
> > * doc generation
> > * LPR support of new printing framework
> 
> There's 2 plugins for LPR. The first one is a Linux/LPR plugin only, which
> will provide complete printer management. At this moment it only works
> for printing, but it is usable.
> The other one (lpdunix) is a generic lp/lpr plugin that provide the same
> support as Qt printing. This plugin won't provide any printer management,
> but will allow to print on any system using either lp or lpr. It can be used
> as a "default" plugin. It currently supports: Linux/LPR, Solaris, HP-UX
> and IRIX-6.x. I'm missing informations for LPRng and AIX systems. I
> made a request on the kde-devel list, but didnt' any answer.
> This generic plugin has been commited yesterday, so it needs testing on
> various supported systems. But it works for Linux/LPR.

This sounds good. Does that mean that all KDE apps should be ported
to use KPrinter instead of QPrinter now ? A powerful printing framework
is a bit useless if no application uses it ;-)

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