[Qt-interest] [Qt-Interest] Problem with QPrinter under X11 - maybe qt bug

[John Layt]

On Monday 17 Oct 2011 10:43:16 Zeljko wrote:
> 
> Oliver,
> You're right about standards, I agree with you, but my point wasn't that, my
> point is why nobody from qt devels tried to fix such important bug ? IMO,
> this is not low-prio issue and doesn't look good when qt usage is
> questionable on one platform because of it.
> Printing is basic thing which should work w/o such problems.
> 
> zeljko

Hi Zeljko,

I'm sorry you've affected by this bug, and it is a shame that someone has made 
such an effort to fix the problem only to fall at the last hurdle.  The main 
problem has been that QPrinter has not had an official maintainer for a while 
now and so bug trage has somewhat fallen between the cracks.  However, as you 
will have seen today Open Governance has launched at qt-project.org so we are 
all now in a position to help solve the problem.

I'm pleased to say that under OpenGov I have been appointed Maintainer for 
QPrinter and as such will have the ability to make sure such fixes get 
applied.  One of my first tasks is do a bug traige and see what I can fix 
during Qt 4.8.  As part of this I'll be reaching out to the person who 
submitted the bug fix to see it gets applied.

Please note that I am not a Nokia employee, nor am I even working for a 
company that uses Qt, I'm a KDE hacker.  I'll be doing this role in my spare 
time so I'll be looking to the wider community to help me get printing back 
into shape, but at least now you have a name to go to whnever printing issues 
arise.

Cheers!

John.