Comment 20 for bug 410220

On Aug 25, 2009, at 8:44AM , Ted Gould wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:15 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>> There is no need for a Preferences for the Messaging Menu, and this
>> use case does not justify the creation of one.
>
> We have specified a preference dialog for the messaging menu. The
> reason is for blacklisting applications.
>
> Originally the control of whether the launcher is in the messaging
> menu
> was in the application preferences. Which is nice. But in the case
> where someone gets an application that they know they don't use, they
> have to open that application and find the setting to remove it.
> Which
> is a pain. But, it is then also compounded by the fact that most
> messaging applications prompt to set up an account on first run before
> they'd even give you the choice to set preferences. So, to remove an
> application you know you're not going to use you'd have to start it,
> configure it, and then set the preference to remove it.

For a concrete example, consider Evolution. To remove the Evolution
launcher from the messaging menu, you'd have to launch Evolution and
set up your email account before you can access Evolution's
preferences and disable the launcher. If the messaging menu lets you
access a simple blacklist, you can just go there and uncheck Evolution
and be done with it.

David

>
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:24 +0100, David Barth wrote:
>> seems a bit difficult to discover.
>>
>> I think we need an option in the Preferences to hide the icon.
>
> I disagree with this. I think that it is hard to discover if your
> goal
> is to hide the icon. But I think in that case people will remove the
> applet. I think that we can let people make a choice to remove
> applications application by application. We don't need an override
> for
> that.
>
> --Ted
>
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