{"id":144,"date":"2007-05-22T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/05\/22\/my-fedora-8-wish-list\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:12:06","slug":"my-fedora-8-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/05\/22\/my-fedora-8-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fedora 8 wish list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of Fedora 7 not far away, I&#8217;ve been thinking about what improvements I would like to make for Fedora 8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Printer status feedback.  I <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/04\/05\/printer-status-feedback\/trackback\/\">started some work<\/a> on this, but it needs finishing off.  The hal backend needs to detect paper-out conditions, and so far only the HPLIP driver detects ink-low.  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