Category: Software

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.

I’ve just finished coding up a performance enhancement for system-config-printer. Now after clicking “New Printer”, it starts fetching the list of printer models and available devices while you are still thinking of a name to give to the printer. Previously it would only fetch those lists when you click “Next”.