Category: Techie stuff

  • emacs-nxml-mode now in Fedora Extras

    I’d been meaning to package nxml-mode for Fedora Extras, and today it finally made it in (yay!). The package name is “emacs-nxml-mode”. It provides on-the-fly validation and well-formedness checking when editing XML documents in Emacs.

  • Branched the printer config tool

    I’m ready to implement the new job options screen, but it will mean changing a fair amount of code and there will probably be bugs in the implementation until it settles down a bit. Until this point both bugs and new features have been going into the Fedora Core 6 system-config-printer tool, but it’s time…

  • New job options screen for s-c-printer

    I’ve been trying to make the job options screen better in system-config-printer. The original screen is not particularly friendly: just a list of tersely-named options like “cpi” with no explanation of what they are for or how they work. I spent some of Friday prototyping a new idea for the screen: instead of only listing…

  • Wanted: Album cover quiz

    Sue and I played one of those album cover quizzes online. Sue’s so much better than I am at getting them right! But it got me thinking: how hard would it be to make one and put it right here? Oh, I’m sure it could be done as a one-off without too much trouble, but…

  • CUPS 1.3 shaping up

    Judging by some of the bugs and features being marked as “fixed in 1.3-current”, CUPS 1.3 is shaping up very nicely!