Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (868 mails)

[Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>]

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-completion-common-printing-dialog

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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. 
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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
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