* An icon to represent a class, i.e. a group of printers that is treated as a single job destination. When a job is printed to a class, the first available printer in the group gets given the job; if that fails, it gets given to the next one in the group, and so on. Something suitable might be an icon of several printers.

* An icon to represent a remote class, i.e. a group of printers that is defined by a remote CUPS server, not the local CUPS server running on this machine. Not sure if this is needed, but we will certainly be making the distinction between printers defined on this machine and printers defined on a remote machine. What do you think — is ‘remote class’ needed?

David B.:
1. The “New” buttons: well, actually the way gnome-cups-manager did this was to have a ‘New Printer’ icon, with a star emblem on the printer icon. I was thinking about doing the same thing. We also need icons for ‘class’ and (possibly) ‘remote class’.

2. I’ve been asked about renaming printers before, and it’s technically possible but a bit tricky. The existing queue needs to stop accepting new jobs, and be copied to a new queue, all existing jobs in the queue need to be moved to the copied queue, and then the original queue has to be deleted and the copied queue set to accept jobs. It would be great to have that working, it’s just not trivial.

May I make two requests?
1. The two “New” buttons ought to have different icons if possible.
2. Could there be a way to rename printers? cupsaddsmb is really fragile and I’ve had issues with printer names being too long. Plus the default name was pretty bad.