KDE4 print dialog does not have "Range" option

[Diego]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Reuben Budiardja wrote:
> >/ It seems that KDE4 print dialog does not have the "Range" option that was
> />/ in KDE 3.5. Under Option, Copies tab, it only has radio button for "Print
> />/ all" or "Pages from: .. to ..". This is a regression of functionality,
> />/ since in KDE 3.5, I can for example set and print the pages: 1-3,5,8-11;
> />/ but not in KDE4. Is this correct or am I missing something ?
> /
> The print dialog is now the one from Qt, because the old kdeprint stuff was
> really horribly broken at the KDE 4.0 release time (nobody had done the
> necessary work to port it all to KDE 4) and Qt's printing functionality has
> improved a lot over Qt 3, so a decision was made to go with Qt's
> functionality. Since 4.0, work has been done on improving Qt's printing
> functionality as much as possible and on replacing other parts of the old
> kdeprint (see the work on system-config-printer-kde and the associated
> printer-applet). Unfortunately, Qt 4's print dialog still doesn't support
> everything KDE 3's print dialog did.
>   

These features are being worked on and some of them already work fine:
http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/i_feel_a_chill_breeze_on_the_back_of_my_neck

Unfortunately John Layt missed the Qt 4.6 feature freeze:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171925#c16

So the problem is that these features won't get merged until Qt 4.7, 
which is quite far away from release...

Shipping these patches in Fedora Qt packages would break the "ABI or API 
Deviations" of the "staying close to upstream projects" policy rule, right?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream

Regards,
Diego