Category: Software

  • “New printer” notification mock-ups

    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.

  • My Fedora 8 wish list

    With the release of Fedora 7 not far away, I’ve been thinking about what improvements I would like to make for Fedora 8.

  • pycups now accepted into Debian unstable

    I just heard that pycups is now included in Debian unstable as python-cups.  Thanks to Otavio Salvador for packaging and maintaining it.

  • Parallel CUPS connections

    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”.

  • “What happened to printconf-tui?”

    This question seems to keep cropping up. I’ll explain why printconf-tui is no longer in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and what its replacement is.