Since Edgy you can use the same printer configuration tool as Fedora Core 6:
system-config-printer.
All you need to do is install the system-config-printer package.
We also have CUPS 1.2 since Dapper and the new GTK+ Print Dialog is already
used by evince since Edgy.
Therefore closing this bug as
Thanks for your suggestion. As a new Ubuntu release is out and this
report is more than six months old I hereby close it. Please check if
you can live with the Feisty print features. If you feel there a missing
features, feel free to open a new bug/wishlist report with a description
of the missing
