Category: Techie stuff

I’m not even sure where to start. In HPLIP-2.8.5 there is a new ‘hp-systray’ program which is meant to be started at login. Its purpose is to ask the user for a fax number when it receives a D-Bus signal from the hpfax backend. That’s all — so why does it sit there with a…

Bruno Haible’s git merge driver for GNU-style ChangeLog files (available in gnulib) is really useful for those of us who prefer to document changes as we go along rather than all at once when committing them.  Paolo Bonzini has posted a script for packaging it into a tarball. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to cope very…

I’ve released system-config-printer 1.0.0 and built it for Fedora’s development tree. The main focus has been improving the way the application looks and behaves. One new feature I’ve been working on is the improved Windows print share browser. Instead of executing the smbclient command and parsing its output to find print shares, the new browser…

The system-config-printer repository at fedorahosted.org, currently using subversion, will shortly be migrating to git. I’ll add a comment here when it’s done.

I just submitted a samba patch to add support for proxy authentication to the CUPS ‘smb’ backend. This makes printing to Windows shared printers a little bit better: instead of having to set the user name and password as part of the CUPS print queue definition, jobs requiring authentication details can now collect them from…