[desktop] foomatic-gui is born
After about 10 hours of me pulling my hair out due to the complete and
utter lack of documentation for GNOME2 and its Python bindings, I have
produced "foomatic-gui". It does some rudimentary autodetection
(click on "Add", make sure you have parport_pc or the kernel USB
printer driver loaded, choose the interface, click "Forward" a lot).
Download URL: http://blog.lordsutch.com/foomatic-gui-0.1.tar.gz
(probably not permanent).
License: GPL.
Probable future features/TODO:
- Packaging as a .deb
- Use GtkHTML (or whatever it's called) to render add foomatic
database info for printers and drivers in the druid.
- Better error handling
- i18n; the code is marked, it just needs to actually have the po
stuff run on it.
- Managing instances for CUPS
- A proper test page (instead of swiping the one from CUPS)
There's nothing inherently Debian-specific about it, although the
detect.py module is probably a bit Linux-centric.
Chris
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Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
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