Goals for next Xfce releases

[Jani Monoses]

I'll answer the autotools part i nmore details when I wake up tomorrow. 
In short I agree with what you say, and that there needs to be a 
compelling reason, and a patch is better. But this is a future goals 
thread where patches are not yet ready for most of the topics mentioned.
Maybe this is useful read
http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/

>>                              printing - distros already have their messy 
>> and different ways of handling printers, I hope one of the the existing 
>> 2-3 GTK/gnome based ones makes it to more than one distro.
> 
> Gtk has its own printing system as of 2.10 or 2.12 or something.  I'm
> not sure if it handles printer discovery and configuration, though.

They have a unified print dialog across apps, something that was done 
(less well) by lignomeprint{,ui} so far but not many apps used that.
They do not really have things which a printer config app would need 
(printer discovery, addition, removal). IIRC there is API related to job 
handling but not sure if it covers all that is needed.

Jani