KMail and printing

[barraclm]

Does anyone know whether it will be possible to print directly from KMail in 17.10 and not have to go round the houses using the browser?

[GreyGeek]

In all versions of KMail I've run during the last dozen years or so there was a menu option: File-->Print and File-->Print Preview. Those always worked for me.

[kubicle]

In all versions of KMail I've run during the last dozen years or so there was a menu option: File-->Print and File-->Print Preview. Those always worked for me.

kdepim (including kmail) switched to using qtwebengine for mail viewing a while back (with some controversy), which has lead to problems with printing (and work arounds like using external browser for printing). qtwebengine 5.8+ should apparently include printing support, but at least on my neon trying to print freezes kmail. (I generally don't print emails, so I haven't really looked into it yet).

[bendy]

This issue is a real annoyance for me as I do sometimes print emails. I was hoping it would be fixed in 17.10...

[GreyGeek]

kdepim (including kmail) switched to using qtwebengine for mail viewing a while back (with some controversy), which has lead to problems with printing (and work arounds like using external browser for printing). qtwebengine 5.8+ should apparently include printing support, but at least on my neon trying to print freezes kmail. (I generally don't print emails, so I haven't really looked into it yet).

mmm ... To test, I just printed out an email from KMail and it printed with no problems. I haven't paid any attention to which technology it was using to print but since I installed Neon User Edition w/ Btrfs I haven't had any problem printing to my HP P1606dn laser printer supported by HPLIP and CUPS.

[kubicle]

To test, I just printed out an email from KMail and it printed with no problems.

Good to hear...TBH, my Neon printing issues may very well be a local problem (my system is a very customized one), and printing might be working fine in Neon in general. This doesn't mean there still are issues with Kubuntu kpepim packages, though, I don't really know which version of qtwebengine they are build against, as I no longer have kubuntu installed on any of my iron.