Category: Techie stuff

  • Screencast of “new printer” bubbles

    I’ve just made a quick screencast showing the “new printer” notification bubbles, as well as a “low ink” notification when printing to an HP printer connected to another machine. I used Fedora 8 “Werewolf” (rc3 plus updates) for this. I didn’t bother showing a “paper out” notification — it looks largely the same.

  • New Printer notification bubbles going down well

    Looks like the New Printer notification bubbles from Fedora 8 are going down well in Ubuntu Gutsy.

  • GIMP print dialog

    Just imagine if The GIMP had a File->Print… menu that looked the same as other GTK+ applications. Am I dreaming to imagine that we might one day have a GTK+ print dialog plugin for GIMP?

  • HPLIP device permissions with ConsoleKit

    Fedora 8 will use ConsoleKit instead of pam_console for granting console users access to attached devices. Here is how ConsoleKit is used in the Fedora HPLIP package to grant access to both console users and the system print spooler.

  • IPP browser

    I’ve added an IPP browser to system-config-printer, similar to the SMB browser. Screenshots below.