Comment 99 for bug 905147

I had the following today:

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> I'm the new community maintainer for printing support in Qt, so I can fill you
> in on some of my plans.  You can find a more detailed description on my blog
> at http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/kf5_localization_and_printing_plans
>
> As Lars has explained, the Qt4 print module has been cleaned up a little in
> Qt5 but we do not plan to add any new features to this code in the future.
> Instead we are planning a new module for 5.1 or 5.2 that conforms to modern
> printing standards and features.  However that is a long time for KDE4 apps to
> wait for the missing features and bug fixes.
>
> My current work plan is to complete the last few localisation features needed
> for Qt 5.0, then to move on to a bug triage on the QPrintSupport module to get
> it ready for 5.0.  The bug fixes here will where possible be back-ported to Qt
> 4.8.  For example, I really want to get the CUPS settings bug fixes in to 4.8.
>
> Once that work is done, I plan to fork off a Qt4 version of QPrintSupport and
> apply on top of it my old patches for adding many of the currently missing
> features.  Once that is stabilised I'll release it as an interim experimental
> print library that KDE4 apps can use if they want.
>
> From there I plan to start working on the new print module, which we will hold
> design session for at the next Qt Contributors Summit.  Hopefully it will be
> ready for Qt 5.1 and so the first full release of KDE Frameworks 5.
>
> I hope that answers a few of your questions.