Sorry forgot to reply to all.. 2012/8/23 Christoph Feck <christ...@maxiom.de>: > On Wednesday 22 August 2012 21:39:11 Daniel Nicoletti wrote: >> 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. > > Given the fact that the above mentioned bug is about authorization, > what does printer-manager do to avoid bug 242648, and how could its > methods be transfered to other modules needing KAuth, such as the kdm > or clock modules?
Well CUPS has it's own API for authorization, which is why I avoided the polkit solution s-c-p-gnome now uses. It wasn't easy to make it work right since CUPS API blocks, but it works reliable now that I wrapped it on a thread. >> * a KDED module to notify the user about new printers >> plugged into USB being configured > > Thanks for caring about blocking D-Bus calls in kded. Hopefully QtDBus > is thread-safe :) Will do a more deep review in the coming days. Well I've been moving all my kded modules to threads to avoid those blocks/deadlocks that happened in the past, and till now I had no issue with that. >> 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 > > Sorry, cannot read sysadmin bugs. Where do you want it to move? Since the idea is to replace s-c-p-kde it would reside where it is now, so these repos would maybe go to unmaintained: git.kde.org:printer-applet http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeadmin/system-config-printer-kde/?view=log As the print-manager repo provides both things * a plasmoid and a kded module to replace printer-applet repo * a KCM to replace s-c-p-kde KCM I don't really know the best destination and I would rather not split this repo since it uses an internal lib, maybe kde workspace would be a good place to stay.
