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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: finding the unloved
From:       John Layt <johnlayt () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-07 9:39:54
Message-ID: 200906071039.54187.johnlayt () googlemail ! com
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On Saturday 06 June 2009 21:51:24 KSU wrote:
> The part of KDE-4 that is most unloved in KPrinter.  In fact, there was
> so little support for it that it was canceled. :-(  I have ideas about
> how this should work, if anyone is interested.

I wouldn't say entirely unloved, just an extremely demanding mistress... :-)

The big thing with printing right now is trying to get all the features we 
need (like odd/even pages and persistent settings) built into the Qt print 
system and dialog, which is now more likely with their moving to a more open 
development model.  Trying to sort that will be my summer project, and anyone 
able to help will be welcome, especially anyone with Mac or Windows printing 
expertise as I have to solve cross-platform issues before I can push my 
patches upstream.

The printer admin stuff is in good hands now with the underlying engine a 
cross-distro project between Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu and others, with 
Kubuntu maintaining the KDE front-ends.

Which leaves the KDE3 print utilities like kprinter and kdeprintfax.  These 
are things I just don't have time to work on at all and really are up for 
grabs.

John.
 
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