Comment 60 for bug 905147

How many issues are covered by this bug? I was browsing through similar bug reports because of issues with duplex printing, and none of them are worded well enough to figure out if it is the issue that I'm having. The issue with the default settings (http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6471) is claimed to be fixed in Qt 4.6.3 which was released about the time when I bought a printer and I haven't experienced it, but the override for the duplex in Options doesn't work for me, and I have to set the duplex setting from Properties -> Advanced -> Double-Sided Printing (this would also be http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6468 I think).

Anyway, the new QPrintDialog is largely inferior to what KDE 3.5 had. First, this upstream issues that the upstream seems to be largely ignoring, then there is the lack of a nice application such as kprinter, and lastly I can use printing filters any more.

KDE 3.5 allowed me to create booklets and all the crazy stuff with ps filters such as psnup, etc. None of them worked correctly for me, true, but I was planning on filing bug reports and/or trying to fix them myself, and I even got some of them working from the command line. The lack of ps filters is a major drawback of the new version. I have to learn to make those from the command line, and store everything in cheat sheets. With KDE 3.5 I could simply create a new filter that performed exactly what I was interested in, and then share it with everyone else, etc.

The idea of using an unified printing framework like org.openprinting.PrintDialog sounds really nice, but what about creating KDEPrintDialog that supports all the features kprinter did that I listed above *and* provides the org.openprinter.PrintDialog dbus interface at the same time? :) I'm personally voting for that path, if it is possible at all.