Tag: system-config-printer

  • Fewer auth dialogs for Print Settings

    The latest version of system-config-printer adds a new button to the main screen: Unlock. This is a GtkLockButton attached to the “all-edit” polkit permission for cups-pk-helper. The idea is to make it work a bit more like the Printing screen in the GNOME Settings application. To make any changes you need to click Unlock first,…

  • More D-Bus goodness in system-config-printer

    Previously I’ve described the D-Bus activation of dialogs in system-config-printer-1.3.  That D-Bus interface has been extended to help improve GNOME. Fedora 15 has been released for a little while now, including GNOME 3.  One of the great new features in this release of GNOME is the System Settings window.  It is easily accessed from the…

  • Firewall adjustments

    I’ve just released version 1.2.1 of system-config-printer.  One of the changes is that it now uses the D-Bus API of the Fedora firewall tool to actually make firewall adjustments that it needs.

  • Presenting at OpenPrinting Summit today

    Just a quick note that I’ll be presenting by phone today, Thursday 15th April, at the OpenPrinting Summit on the topic of automatic printer driver installation in Fedora 13.  The talk is at 1600 UTC / 1700 BST, and was not Wednesday as scheduled.  The schedule hasn’t been updated yet, but when it is you…

  • system-config-printer 1.2.0

    I’ve just released the first version in a new stable branch of system-config-printer.  The changes are listed below.