are there any plans for this ?

[christoph beyer]

Hi,

sorry to bother you on the development list, I just would like to know if there are any plans to implement this in the future:

In my environment I have 600+ printerqueues on a campus with ~4.000 users, obviously I can not put all these queues on one cupsserver, also browsing this number of printers is not very nice. So what I do now is offering ~20 different cups servers for the different departments with different selections of printers, clients are attached with the 'default_server' option and work on linux boxes.

Though most of my users just use 3 to 6 printers in there building and maybe a plotting machine or a virtual log queue. Best solution for them would be the windows-like approach to browse the printers on the server and make an individual selection by clicking on the queuenames. Unfortunately if you add a single printer from a remote cups server the printer type information and queue presettings are not transfered to the client instead the user is bothered with the usual questions (what kind of printer and so on) which is for most users not acceptable.

Are there any plans to change this in the future and does it sound like a reasonable feature-request ???

cheers
christoph