On 11 September 2015 at 13:37, Michael Weghorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> thank you very much for the quick reply. No problem, was lazily checking my mail on a Friday afternoon as I wind down at work... :-) > I estimate it quite a big issue in the migration to KDE 5/Qt 5 for us if > all those printer-specific options cannot be set any more. Yes, it's an issue for us inside KDE too, which is why I feel bad about it stalling :-( I'm not sure we can even use the hack we used in KDE4 anymore, where we inserted our own CUPS settings into the model so they would be applied. > In case we/I might consider contributing to a reimplementation: > Have you already started making thoughts of how to implement it or maybe > even started? > In case any resources are available (git branch,...) I would be very > glad to get more information. Given the dependency tree of new features required to reach the end point, a temporary implementation might be a better bet than waiting for the new print system, i.e. reimplement the old extra page but smarter. The main problem with the old page was it duplicated settings from the main dialog, and hid the fact you could actually edit the values. The UX I had in mind for Qt4 was to choose all the features that could be supported directly in the main dialog and add them there, then filter those out in the extra page in a generic editing view. It would require a lot of work around parsing PPD's and matching option codes to existing ui, but it's doable. For working on the new print system backend and dialog, unfortunately most of the details reside in my head, but there's a rough outline at: * https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5-QtPrint * https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-contributors-summit-2014-QtPrintSupport * http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2014-January/014919.html The main code lives in qtbase: * qtbase/src/printsupport * qtbase/src/plugins/printsupport In particular the CUPS print dialog is at * qtbase/src/printsupport/dialogs/qprintdialog_unix.cpp I have various experimental branches on my hard drive and previously on Gitorious, but nothing progressed enough to really push anywhere though, but I'll try have a poke around this weekend to see if there's something useful. Cheers! John. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
