Bug 292848

Summary:	Please revive kprinter
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] print-manager	Reporter:	Kurt Bennater <curdyben>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Kurt Bennater 2012-01-30 09:37:44 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

I miss a possibility to filter print jobs in KDE 4 (just as kprinter in KDE 3.5 offered them). I am aware of http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kprinter?content=147887 which is hitherto only available for KDE 4.7 and still suffers from crashes (nevertheless, thanks to cyberbeat for the effort!). (E.g., it crashes if you click "Cancel".)

If you do a web search for "KDE4 kprinter", it seems that this is a sadly missed feature. It would be great if kprinter could be re-integrated into the main branch again and maintained with more effort.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The properties dialog of a selected printer should offer a tab "filters" with the option to add, e.g., postscript conversion filters -- cf. KDE3 kprinter.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2012-02-06 02:04:08 UTC

See also https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kdelibs&component=print-dialog&order=bugs.bug_id&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 229960 ***

Comment 2 Daniel Nicoletti 2012-02-06 17:46:24 UTC

Also print-manager is not kprinter.
print-manager is pretty much the same of kprinter with easy to use in mind, but as I don't have time and developers doesn't print :P it's stuck for a while, the biggest problem is that the auto detection of printers has large efforts on the pycups stuff which is not easy to integrate with C/C++ code.