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Wed 24 Oct 2007

Printer Autoconfiguration

Posted by J5 under Gnome , Linux , Redhat , Freedesktop , D-Bus , Fedora , hal , Standards , usability
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It is good to see other distributions are picking up the eggcups printer autoconfiguration interfaces which I had started and Tim Waugh had perfected. It was more than three years ago that GNOME had a dream of making USB hardware ‘Just Work’ when plugging them in. Today one can’t imagine a desktop distribution which doesn’t have this. A key agenda at the next GUADEC should be getting a lot of this work accepted upstream and figuring out how last mile items like PolicyKit will add polish to great stack we have built up.

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Tue 3 Apr 2007

Havoc is like Silent Bob

Posted by J5 under Gnome , Redhat , Freedesktop , D-Bus , hal , usability , mugshot
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You hardly hear from him but when you do it is pretty profound. It was a similar manifesto which launched the D-Bus project and inspired David Zeuthen to write HAL. Go, go, go mugshot team. GNOME should really get onboard.

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Wed 15 Nov 2006

All I have to say is

Posted by J5 under Gnome , Freedesktop , hal
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hughsie rocks!!! That is all.

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