Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-google-cloud-print-integration
Google Cloud Print allows printing on your local printers from whereever you can send jobs to the Google Cloud Print service, especially from mobile devices, like smartphones, tablets, and computers running Google Chrome OS.
Google itself only offers to either use HP ePrint printers (network printers which can receive print jobs by e-mail) or to use the Chromium browser as server to share the local printers to Cloud Print. The latter is officially only supported under Windows and Mac OS X, but under Linux it can be enabled through a secret "Cheat Mode", entering the URL "about:Flags" and enabling the “Cloud Print Proxy” entry, then clicking the wrench at the upper right and selecting "Preferences" -> "Under The Hood" and there will be a "Google Cloud Print" section near the end of the list.
So these methods are awkward, running a full-featured browser only to make available ones printers or to have to use a printer out of small choice of models.
There is also a "cloudprint" package in Universe which is a small lightweight command line tool to replace the Cloud Print functionality of Chromium, but usual desktop users are not aware of that.
What we would need is something like a capplet in GNOME Control Center to (de)activate and configure Google Cloud Print. This GUI needs to be designed and it also needs to be decided which user daemon will be used to enable Cloud Print, the one of Chromium or the "cloudprint" package.
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