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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Display technologies in KDE
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       2000-02-03 9:18:43
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dirk Schönberger wrote:

> There exist another layer in Gnome, gnome-print. Gnome-print provides
> something of a
> Gtk API for the common Postscript operators, which are rendered on different
> backends, like a printer, a metafile or a bitmap/preview. The architecture
> is similar to the QPainter/QPaintDevice combo.
> 
> I would really like to see something like gnome-print in KDE, so if there is
> further interest,
> please let's discuss it. I have some basic classes for it, but there isn't
> something to see until now. I contacted Raph Levien as author of libart, and
> he has no problems with using it inside KDE.

Hmm,.. I am getting the impression that GNOME does the better marketing.
Please tell me the advantage of using gnome-print instead of QPrinter?

Regards,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Stauffenbergstr. 107, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany  //   
KDE:  The most advanced GUI for a reliable OS.

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