desktop-printing and kde

Mike Martin redtuxxx at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jul 23 09:00:59 UTC 2003


 --- Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at
09:07:44PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Philip Wyett (philipwyett at dsl.pipex.com) said: 
> > > I will ask here before bugzilla'ing this.
> > > 
> > > Is the Gnome 'desktop-printing' package intended to be kde
> dependant? I
> > > ask because I am getting kdelibs, kdebase and the i18n-British
> packages
> > > installed, during my Gnome only installs. :(
> > 
> > It currently is using kprinter; there's some talk of it using
> > qtcups instead.
> 
> The problem is that qtcups is no longer maintained AIUI, and all
> the
> other solutions in this area (display a print dialog) seem to have
> dependencies on things we don't ship (yet?).
> 
> If anyone knows a good, reasonably dependency-free, application to
> display a print dialog and send stdin to the selected printer,
> please
> speak up!
> 
> <threat>Otherwise I'll hack up a Python one using the pycups thing
> from redhat-config-printer.</threat>
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 

AFAIK gnome-print-man does - I'll check it out when I get home

(yes I noticed the annoying existence of KDE last night on my
"gnome-only" install)

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