Hi all, The support for Common Print Dialog Backends has been in the works for a while. As of last year we are provisioning the SDK in our CI nodes:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qt5/+/471258 but the change on Qt is stuck a bit. Could someone with experience and knowledge about the state of CPDB help with reviewing those patches, please? Open changes are in the chain at https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/437301/17 (need to be rebased and the SDK might need to be bumped to latest version v2.0b5). Thanks, Volker > On 17 Oct 2022, at 16:03, G G <gaurav.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have added CPDB support to the print dialog, and opened a pull request > here: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/437301. It would be > great if anyone is able to review it. > > To build qt with CPDB support, make sure you have CPDB frontend library: > https://github.com/openprinting/cpdb-libs and CPDB CUPS backend: > https://github.com/openprinting/cpdb-backend-cups installed. Their debian > packages are outdated, since I had to make some one time changes and > improvements to CPDB while adding support to the GTK and Qt print dialog. > Once you have both of them installed, the "configure" command should > automatically pick up on the CPDB backend and prefer it over the CUPS backend. > > For now, I have used "#if QT_CONFIG(cpdb) ... #endif" constructs in the UNIX > print backend, and also added a CPDB Job widget, which shares the same UI as > CUPS Job widget but different implementation. > > Thanks, > Gaurav > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 3:50 AM Gaurav Guleria <gaurav.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am Gaurav Guleria, a GSoC student, working with Till Kamppeter to add > and improve Common Print Dialog (CPD) support to existing print dialogs > like GTK and Qt. More about CPD can be read here: > https://openprinting.github.io/projects/04-print-dialog/. > > I wanted to ask about your opinions on the implementation and the way we > should proceed with it. I talked with a few people and read this old > article here: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5-QtPrint, which suggests the Qt > team prefers CPD support as a plugin rather than a direct integration > into the QPrintDialog. > > Just to summarize briefly, implementing CPD support directly in the > print dialog would mean that the Qt team wouldn't have to worry about > any future CUPS changes, or any other print backends for that matter, as > CPD will handle them all instead. > > It would be really helpful if you could share your views on this and > give your suggestions. > > Thanks, > > Gaurav > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
