What you have now is the first, already very feature-rich version of KDEPrint. This version is, of course, fully usable for printing. You might even think that “it was never so easy” (not even back in the days when you had to use Microsoft® Windows®).
In the future, KDEPrint will become even better. It will do a better job of “detecting” your installed print subsystem itself. Already KDEPrint is doing quite well in automatically sensing if you have CUPS on your system. But in many cases you will have to tell KDEPrint what you are using, if you want to keep a legacy print system.
The most important improvement in the near future will be a completion of the LPRng plugin. This at present is still very basic. It is restricted to the pure classical LPD part of LPRng.
Also, you may be able to add printers directly from the print dialog to your system “just in time”, without going to KControl first.
Some smaller improvements already planned are:
add a file selection dialog from the kprinter window to allow combining of additional files to the present printjob
add a “history” button to the KJobViewer window and also a column to show the number of pages CUPS calculates for the job.
Finally, there will be an “IO slave” that will give
you access to your print subsystem, via Konqueror for example. With
this you will soon be able to browse your print subsystem from
Konqueror through a URL like shortcut such as
print://printers/printername
. A KPart will add
a virtual folder to the services section of the Konqueror navigation
panel, giving a nice integrated way to browse and manage your print
system via the URL print:/manager
.
Please contact Michael Goffioul at (kdeprint AT swing.be)
with any further user or developer suggestions.
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