Category: Software

I’ve added a simple trouble-shooting mode to system-config-printer in version 0.7.80.  It’s not very sophisticated, but I hope it will be useful.  It is a “wizard”-type dialog with forward and back buttons, and the Python source code allows for question screens to be slotted in fairly easily.  If it can’t work out the problem it…

The first steps for using the OpenPrinting.org API which I’ve mentioned before have now been checked into the trunk of system-config-printer.  Today’s release, 0.7.79, doesn’t enable any of it yet, but the openprinting.py module contains the code.

The Fedora Project subversion URLs have changed for pycups, hal-cups-utils and system-config-printer. They are now at: http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/pycups http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/hal-cups-utils http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/system-config-printer

I’ve been asked about this, so here is a brief summary of the current abilities and limitations of Fedora 8 regarding printer status feedback i.e. getting errors and warnings (paper out, low ink, that sort of thing) to the person who needs to know.

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.