Month: August 2011

  • D-Bus and Python: asynchronous method implementation

    This is a quick demonstration of how to implement a D-Bus method in Python using asynchronous callbacks. I recently added support in system-config-printer for determining the best driver to use for a particular printer.  This is an expensive operation, largely because of the time it takes to get a list of available drivers from CUPS,…

  • Avahi support for CUPS 1.5.0

    The Avahi support for CUPS has been ported to 1.5.0 now.  I’ve updated the git repository (tracking upstream CUPS, as well as having feature branches for Avahi): git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/twaugh/public_html/cups-avahi.git Fedora packages for F-16 and rawhide have been built.