Category: Techie stuff

There is now a proper PPDs class in the printer admin tool, capable of indexing the PPDs that CUPS returns in a variety of useful ways. This means system-config-printer no longer needs to parse the foomatic XML database when looking for a printer driver, starting from version 0.7.67.

This sort of thing gets me down. I get a bug report that someone can’t use their printer, and it turns out it’s because it needs the foo2zjs driver. I can’t add foo2zjs to Fedora for legal reasons (as far as I can tell), and when I explained that to them, with a link to…

Got a plan for fixing the printer driver prompt. This is the prompt you get when a driver can’t be found for the printer you just plugged in. The issue is that you can’t say “use this PPD file I’ve got” but instead have to choose from the ones that already didn’t match.

With the release of Fedora 7 not far away, I’ve been thinking about what improvements I would like to make for Fedora 8.

I just heard that pycups is now included in Debian unstable as python-cups.  Thanks to Otavio Salvador for packaging and maintaining it.