Category: Techie stuff

  • New patchutils version

    I’ve just made patchutils version 0.3.1 available, with a few small improvements.

  • Reporting ink levels

    I’ve just added support to system-config-printer for displaying ink and toner levels for printers.  It’s in the 1.1.x branch and will appear in 1.1.2.

  • system-config-printer 1.1.0

    I just made system-config-printer-1.1.0 available.  Below are some of the changes compared to 1.0.12.

  • CUPS, GTK+, Python, and threading

    I’ve been trying to prevent a Python GTK+ application (the system-config-printer printing troubleshooter) from appearing to freeze when performing CUPS operations such as fetching a list of available devices. Let me describe the problem.  In the libcups API the main worker function is cupsDoRequest() and this function blocks until the request is complete.  It may…

  • Gutenprint 5.2 update for Fedora 10

    I’ve just submitted a Fedora 10 test update for gutenprint, updating it from 5.0.2 to 5.2.2.  The new stable series 5.2.x was released only days after the freeze for Fedora 10.  Support has been added for lots of new printers.  Please test it out!