"Startup Application Preferences" should have an icon in Control Center

[Florian Diesch]

In 12.10 "Startup Application Preferences" has been removed from the session indicator. It should have an icon in Control Center so users can find it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-session-bin 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 22 15:28:08 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (3 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report but "startup application" are not a setting, you can find it from the unity dash...

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

I do think of the autostart programs as part of my session configuration. As its .desktop file has "Settings" in its "Categories" entry it seems I'm not the only one who thinks like that.

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

I have attached a modified session-properties.desktop file that adds an icon in Control Center for those who want that, too.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Maybe this should be Won't Fix for Ubuntu if upstream thinks it's a bad idea, on the grounds that it's not important enough for us to override upstream. But for the reasons Florian gave, it's not accurate to say that it's "not a setting".

(FWIW, I've previously proposed including it in the User Accounts panel. <https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Proposals/LoginItems#Proposal>)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

If the only rational is "the .desktop contain those categories" we can easily distro patch those categories out... or is that a design based reason there?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

It's the other way around. :-) It isn't system settings because it has the "Settings" category, it has the "Settings" category because it is system settings.

Ideally, I think, it would be integrated into an existing System Settings panel. The next best thing would be for it to be a panel by itself. The next best thing after that is for it to be a launcher in System Settings, like Software Sources is currently.

[Sylvhem (sylvhem)]

It would be very useful and better than the actual situation which doesn't make any logical sense.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.
Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.

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