Category: Software

  • 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.

  • Testing duplex printing on Fedora

    It was a while before OpenOffice.org and Evince both worked correctly with the GTK+ print dialog in Fedora Core 6, and most of the problems were with duplexing and printing multiple copies. Intrigued by a message on the fedora-list mailing list complaining about problems with duplex printing, I decided to spend a bit of time…