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[Paul Sladen <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Sohail Mirza wrote:

Hello Sohail,

> Is there an indicator-printer in the works?

Others may be able to give you a better and more reliable answer, but
my expectation would be that in the short-term similar (similar to
nm-applet for Network Manager) the existing printer funcationality
would be presented as a D-Bus status indicator under the
APP_INDICATOR_CATEGORY_HARDWARE category:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators

	-Paul