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

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El 21/10/11 15:31, John Layt escribió:
> 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.
> 

Wow, first day of OpenGov and we have the first helpful reply to fix a bug in Qt
by a developer outside of Nokia, this seems really promising, thanks for your
suppot John.

Regards,
Miguel Angel.