kprinter

[Neal Becker]

Is there a replacement for kprinter (cli to open dialog and print stdin)?  I 
need it for cxoffice.

[Rex Dieter]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Is there a replacement for kprinter (cli to open dialog and print stdin)?

No (and yes).

KDE4 itself doesn't offer anything like kprinter, yet,,, *but* kprinter 
is (still) available as part of the kde3 runtime (in kdebase3).

-- Rex

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 18:49:52 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > Is there a replacement for kprinter (cli to open dialog and print stdin)?
>
> No (and yes).
>
> KDE4 itself doesn't offer anything like kprinter, yet,,, *but* kprinter
> is (still) available as part of the kde3 runtime (in kdebase3).

Does that mean that kprinter can be installed alongside kde4?  If so, how does 
that affect the existing print tools?

Anne

[Rex Dieter]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 18:49:52 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> > > Is there a replacement for kprinter (cli to open dialog and print stdin)?
> >
> > No (and yes).
> >
> > KDE4 itself doesn't offer anything like kprinter, yet,,, *but* kprinter
> > is (still) available as part of the kde3 runtime (in kdebase3).
>
> Does that mean that kprinter can be installed alongside kde4?

yes, absolutely... been doing that since F-9, kde-4.0 release. :)
> If so, how does that affect the existing print tools?

shouldn't affect anything else really.

-- Rex

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 19:05:01 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 18:49:52 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Neal Becker wrote:
> > > > Is there a replacement for kprinter (cli to open dialog and print
> > > > stdin)?
> > >
> > > No (and yes).
> > >
> > > KDE4 itself doesn't offer anything like kprinter, yet,,, *but* kprinter
> > > is (still) available as part of the kde3 runtime (in kdebase3).
> >
> > Does that mean that kprinter can be installed alongside kde4?
>
> yes, absolutely... been doing that since F-9, kde-4.0 release. :)
> > If so, how does that affect the existing print tools?
>
> shouldn't affect anything else really.

Sounds good to me.  The new interface should be good in time, but it lacks a 
few really useful things at the moment.  Now - File Associations will need 
changing, I guess, but how?

Anne