Ages ago British Pathé opened up its archive of newsreel footage. As for the video format, it is all in WMV and QuickTime. So the stills are accessible, but the videos require proprietary codecs. Sue reminded me about the new Fluendo WMV codecs, so we had a go with the free preview footage.

Yesterday I finished making the new job options screen for the printer configuration tool. The options that are known to exist are laid out in groups, with a reset button to get back to the system default for each option. The next step will be to just have the reset buttons for the mandatory system…

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.

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…