[Libaps-general] Using libAPS in KDE

[Waldo B. <ba...@kd...>]

Hiya,

I'm working on migrating KDE 2.x to a APS based printing solution. As such I 
have added v1.0 of libaps to kdesupport. Since it needs to write to /etc it 
needs to be root so I haven't made it install by default. So you need to pass 
--with-aps when configuring kdesupport.

I also started looking at a simple print dialog based on libAPS and one of 
the first things that I noted was that, using LPR as spooler, the names of 
the printers are a bit cryptic.

E.g. with a printcap entry like:

lp|ap|arpa|ucbarpa|LA-180 DecWriter III:\

I get "ap" as name. I rather would be able to show "LA-180 DecWriter III" to 
the user. 

Slightly related, all strings are represented as "const char *". Assuming 
that in some cases these strings are user defined it would be usefull to 
define in the API what the character encoding of such a string is supposed to 
be. utf8 seems a good candidate to me.

Cheers,
Waldo
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