Category: Techie stuff

  • Switching mail clients

    I’ve finally come to the end of my tether with the Evolution mail client.  It seems to have been getting less reliable over time, to the point that it is now no longer letting me update my inbox.  Deciding it was time to try out Thunderbird again, I have taken the plunge and migrated all…

  • New patchutils version

    I’ve just made patchutils version 0.3.1 available, with a few small improvements.

  • Reporting ink levels

    I’ve just added support to system-config-printer for displaying ink and toner levels for printers.  It’s in the 1.1.x branch and will appear in 1.1.2.

  • system-config-printer 1.1.0

    I just made system-config-printer-1.1.0 available.  Below are some of the changes compared to 1.0.12.

  • CUPS, GTK+, Python, and threading

    I’ve been trying to prevent a Python GTK+ application (the system-config-printer printing troubleshooter) from appearing to freeze when performing CUPS operations such as fetching a list of available devices. Let me describe the problem.  In the libcups API the main worker function is cupsDoRequest() and this function blocks until the request is complete.  It may…