Hi list, two years ago I started print-manager, at that time I was using Debian which is affected by this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271957 because of this (and the fact I'm not a python fan to fix the issue) I started print-manager a C++ implementation that could replace the current solution and fix the bug I had.
Jonathan Riddell (system-config-printer-kde maintainer) is and was aware of my work and had nothing against it since it would mean less stuff for him to maintain. It took a lot of time for me to decide this is mature to properly replace the current solution because choosing the best PPD for a printer is not an easy task, but now s-c-p has a dbus interface exposing these features so we don't need it running all the time. On Gnome 3 their control center also features a printer module written in C which uses s-c-p dbus interface so s-c-p as a GUI seems to be faded to remain as a helper thing only. Due to this all features s-c-p-kde has print-manager has it too, and due to the lack of maintenance some features from s-c-p-gnome aren't available on the -kde version, which I included in print-manager. It features: * a KDED module to notify the user about new printers plugged into USB being configured * a KCM module to manage the printers/cups options * a Jobs widget UI to manage print queues * a plasmoid to manage current jobs/printers All the above use an internal shared lib called libkcups which is threaded to be completely async. This library handles CUPS authentication directly with CUPS (s-c-p-gnome uses polkit). Right now translations are mostly undone which is why I feel important to do the move as soon as possible so KDE 4.10 has it well translated. Blog posts I've made about it http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/print-manager-0-2-0-released/ http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/print-manager-0-1-0-released/ 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/ http://dantti.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/printimprovements/ http://dantti.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/printprogress/ http://dantti.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/print-manager/ and please review the code :D which is right now at https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/print-manager but a sysadmin request to move has already been filled Best, -- Daniel Nicoletti KDE Developer - http://dantti.wordpress.com
