Is user account an application or a system management tool?

[Sandra Farnedi]

I notice (see attached screen-shot) that user account manager is shown by the dash as an application. Is it correct? Other system management tools are not shown by the dash.

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dash 0.5.7-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Wed Apr 25 12:41:58 2012LiveMediaBuild: Edubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: dash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

reassigned because the dash itself is working, this is much more a design issue

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, what do you mean "Other system management tools are not shown by the dash."? All the system settings icons here are listed by the dash (i.e type backup, or printer, or sound in the dash)

[Sandra Farnedi (sandra-farnedi-d)]

I mean that if I run for instance BackUp or DateAndTimeSettings or something else using System Settings I do not see them later as recently used applications inside the dash windows, on the contrary User Account is shown.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's weird, running datetime from the dash makes it being listed first in recently used once closed here...

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

If you run the applications such as Backup, DateAndTimeSettings using the Dash, they appear in the recent apps section considering that they are applications. However if you use them from the System Settings they do not appear in the recent apps section. But nonetheless, these are considered as applications.

[Sandra Farnedi (sandra-farnedi-d)]

It does not seem to be a coherent behaviour, anyway, if you think it's correct, let's set the bug as invalid.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

I think that is better to keep system settings tool out of the Application list, where are generating just more chaos.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

To clarify, system settings tools in general and not the gnome application.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

setting "opinion", most users enjoy having easy access to those panels from the dash, it was suggested on some other bugs that they should perhaps be in a different lens from the application one which could be another option, but just dropping it would make the dash less useful, you couldn't type i.e "backup" in it and get an useful result

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/988264