I think that a GUI printer manager is probably the most difficult issue
for a lightweight distro, but I'm glad you guys are trying to solve it,
because printing is probably one of the most fundamental tasks of an
operating system.
One time I was using XFCE on Ubuntu, and I was printing to my USB HP
PSC1310. For some reason I pulled the USB cable while it was printing.
Getting the printer re-enabled was the most aggravating experience,
because I at first assumed that Ubuntu wasn't recognizing the printer
when I plugged it back in, because it wouldn't print anymore. In
reality, the printer was just paused, and I had no way of checking the
status. If I was using Gnome, there would be a little printer icon in
the systray with a red "!" on it, and I could just re-enable it with a
right-click. The XFCE printer manager is almost worthless in my
opinion, unless it's drastically changed for XFCE 4.4. We really need
to be able to manage the queue, and check and change the status of
printers, and add new ones.
I don't know if you guys have evaluated http://gtklp.sourceforge.net/
specifically the gtklpq component (queue and status manager).
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