Comment 8 for bug 1045262

The system calls of hud-service noted in #6 seem to be generated in check_app_init or configure_db here http://sourcecodebrowser.com/indicator-appmenu/12.10.0/usage-tracker_8c.html .

The calls in configure_db I would not expect to be executed after doing

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.appmenu.hud store-usage-data false

Since I see the system calls even after this when running

killall hud-service; strace /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hud/hud-service

I assume the calls in check_app_init are to blame. This is, however, where my understanding of the problem ends.