GNOME and printing

[LJ <king_6 gmx net>]

Hello!

I think that GNOME should provide support for CUPS which seems to become 
the standard printing system for *ix and Linux (there is already strong 
support for CUPS in KDE). This could be achieved by adding two features 
to GNOME:

1. CUPS options could be included into the GNOME printing dialog, 
resulting in something like XPP or QtCUPS.

2. There should be some print queue manager in GNOME, preferably using 
CUPS features.

If someone is interested (I'm not a very experienced programmer), here 
are some helpful links:
[1] http://www.cups.org/ - general information about CUPS
[2] http://cups.sourceforge.net/xpp/ - XPP, a printing dialog
[3] http://cups.sourceforge.net/qtcups/index.html - QtCUPS, a printing 
dialog
[4] http://pt-printing.sourceforge.net/ - GTK print queue manager
[5] http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~sirtobi/gtklp/ - GTK printing dialog

Since [4] and [5] are GTK programs, they could probably be ported to 
GNOME or used within GNOME applications.