Hi,
The decision has been made to remove KDEPrint from KDE 4.0
and to switch to
using QPrinter. We've run out of time to fix KDEPrint and
this is the only
way to have a working print system for 4.0. We lose many
features as a
result, but QT 4.4 and later KDE 4.1 will see most of them
restored. We are
planning a Dot article to explain the changes to our users.
We are working to port all apps before the 24th October
tagging of the Dev
Platform, when we need to have moved KDEPrint to extragear.
The sooner it's
done, the sooner we know if there's any issues to fix in
kdelibs.
The following extragear apps need to be ported:
/extragear/graphics/digikam
/extragear/graphics/kfax
/extragear/graphics/kgrab
/extragear/graphics/kgraphviewer
/extragear/graphics/kiconedit
/extragear/graphics/kuickshow
/extragear/graphics/ligature
/extragear/security/pwmanager
It you want to port your own apps, please sign-up at
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDEPrint/KDE4#Porting
, otherwise I will get
to them in the order listed on that page. Full instructions
are on that
page, most apps need only 5-10 lines changed.
I strongly urge you to test your printing functions after
porting to confirm
that the results are presentable, you may need to tweak your
painting code to
cater for differences in rendering.
Qt does not have a Print Preview function, if you need it
and you don't
already use the KStandardAction for it, you will need to add
the new
KPrintPreview yourself.
Our apologies for the short notice, but we simply ran out of
time and now have
no other alternative.
Cheers!
John.
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