Hello, On May 16 21:47 John E. Perry wrote (excerpt):
a serious lack of attention to the overall kde printing code
In general there is not much attention to printing neither in desktop projects (like Gnome and KDE) nor in application projects (like OpenOffice and Mozilla). You may have a look at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/plan-comp... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME and KDE projects simply want to have patches, they do not want to work on the implementation themselves. ... Why not volunteers? ... biggest problem was finding volunteers to implement or maintain printing-related projects. Printing seems really not to be attractive in the big community of volunteer programmers in the free software area. Free software projects, like KDE, GNOME, or OpenOffice.org do only a certain minimum effort to keep printing working, as they do not have the developers who really like to work on the printing part. It is even difficult to get students applying for printing projects in the Google Summer of Code, as there is a big offer of other, more attractive projects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless there are volunteers who care about printing in the desktops and in the applications, the result matches exactly the interest. Complaints do not at all help here. Contribution to the upstream projects would help. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org