> The okular people know they can do it, but they keep saying someone else should do it for them. *shrug*
You still don't seem to understand ripping out kdeprint and replacing it with a 'invoke CUPS' lpr on command line' was one of the worst ideas ever, and we were nor are happy about it. Building a printing system is not quite an easy task: you either do a "kinda basic" configuration (like current Okular's), or end up basically rewriting kdeprint or the Qt printing functionalities, and both of them are quite big own modules; there's no intermediate solution.
Also, you don't understand that we don't have experienced people in printing, and not having all the possible configurations which users report does not help in the job.
You can shrug as you want, but your shrugging won't tell us what to improve, nor how to cope with printers (and their configurations) which we never heard about, and so on.
easy? not quite
> The okular people know they can do it, but they keep saying someone else should do it for them. *shrug*
You still don't seem to understand ripping out kdeprint and replacing it with a 'invoke CUPS' lpr on command line' was one of the worst ideas ever, and we were nor are happy about it. Building a printing system is not quite an easy task: you either do a "kinda basic" configuration (like current Okular's), or end up basically rewriting kdeprint or the Qt printing functionalities, and both of them are quite big own modules; there's no intermediate solution.
Also, you don't understand that we don't have experienced people in printing, and not having all the possible configurations which users report does not help in the job.
You can shrug as you want, but your shrugging won't tell us what to improve, nor how to cope with printers (and their configurations) which we never heard about, and so on.
Pino Toscano (Okular maintainer)