Hallo i am planning to integrate kdeprint subsystem with inkscape. What do you think about it ? Is someone already working on it ? Any suggestions how it should be done ?
Roman Glebov
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Roman Glebov wrote:
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:13:25 +0100 From: Roman Glebov <bleon@...240...> To: inkscape-devel list inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] kdeprint integration
Hallo i am planning to integrate kdeprint subsystem with inkscape. What do you think about it ?
Wow, interesting idea. I have heard of the KDE file chooser being integrated with Gnome applications before but never the kdeprint subsystem. Has anyone else done something like this before?
Is someone already working on it ?
I doubt it, I dont think it has even been suggested as a bug or enhancement request.
Any suggestions how it should be done ?
You may be aware Sodipodi included KDE integration (file chooser) but it proved difficult to maintain and was removed. The initial work is often small in comparision to the need for ongoing maintainance and testing. If this work could be done with the help of freedesktop.org or the gnome-print developers to somehow make it possible to use kdeprint in any gtk application I imagine it would stand a much better chance of being maintained.
I hope you will pursue the idea but keep in mind the need for a solution that would be maintainable in the long run.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 14:13 +0100, Roman Glebov wrote:
Hallo i am planning to integrate kdeprint subsystem with inkscape. What do you think about it ? Is someone already working on it ? Any suggestions how it should be done ?
I don't think anyone is working on it.
How complete you want to be depends on how you should do it :) I think most KDE users today adjust the postscript output to have "| kdeprint" as their print string, thus getting the KDE dialog. If you'd like to do that pragmatically, you can look at ps-out.cpp and eps-out.cpp, which basically do the same thing.
One thing that Inkscape is currently lacking is a reasonable way to select which printer extension to use. If you were to make a working KDE extension, I could work on making it more usable from that standpoint.
--Ted
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