Comment 2 for bug 498322

I can remove the icon, or the menu item. Or install them in a second package or something.

I'm biased, of course, but I really like the icon, and the menu item, so I'm not the most objective judge. I find it really useful to be able to launch byobu from the Applications menu. And it's intended to be a "friendlier" version of the console. Note that we do have the Terminal in the Accessories menu. I have separately proposed that we expose a checkbox in the preferences menu in gnome-terminal that would launch Byobu by default, when you open a terminal. This is nice because your shell sessions will persist after logouts, or through X crashes and such.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll take this up with the desktop team.