Hello,
(please CC me, I'm not subscribed)
first of all a small introduction: a few of you know me as "einar77" on IRC, and I'm a member of the KDE community (random patches, official forum administration, some small promo work) upstream. Here and there I have contributed a few fixes also to openSUSE packages (mainly related to PyKDE4).
I'm writing this to suggest using print-manager instead of printer-applet to keep track of printing jobs on KDE. For those who don't know, print-manager is a series of programs written by Daniel Nicoletti, of apper fame (which is used as updater applet for KDE oS).
print-manager consists of a library to talk to CUPS, a KCM to manage printers (perhaps overlapping with YaST on that regard) and a plasmoid for print jobs / queues.
Its main advantage over the default upstream provided by KDE are:
- maintained (after a hiatus, dantti resumed working on it)
- an actually sane code base (believe me... I looked through system-config- printer-kde and I even managed to fix a bug)
- smaller footprint (doesn't require PyKDE4)
I have been using it for a while and it's definitely nice: on the negative side there are a few layout bugs in the plasmoid when embedded in the system tray that might need fixing.
Some references:
- http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/print-manager-is-now-low-latency-and- low-cpu-demanding/
- http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/print-manager-improvements/
- http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/say-hello-to-our-must-have-new- plasmoid/
I personally think it's much better to have this solution rather than system- config-printer-kde, which is bitrotting and hardly maintainable. Opinions? Sounds nice. Considering its made by the guy that made Apper makes me
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:12 +0200, Luca Beltrame wrote: think we would have to be insane to include it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org