Comment 23 for bug 452067

@Conscious User

Oh, of course I understand that there are some technical difficulties.. and the solution I proposed maybe needs al lot of coding, so it is not easy to implement..you can consider this feature as a 'whishlist', and maybe one day you'll implement it! :-)
Maybe it easier to put the choice in a gconf-editor string.. it will not be a system-wide choice, but just an option of the MeMenu.
MeMenu by default uses empathy to set your status, and if someone wants to use pigdin he simply edit a string with gconf-editor

There is a similar example that just came into my mind.. the new version of eog (the verision that ships into ubunto 10.04) have a nice button in the toolbar saying "Edit this image". You click on this button and fspot suddenly opens, so that you can quickly modify your image.
Personally I don't like f-spot, so I modified a string in gconf-editor and now my eog open the gimp when I click on the "edit this image" button..

In this case ubuntu developers have decided to support only one image editing software, and I think this is good. The button "edit this image" does exactly what user expect.. it opens one image editor app. The system is "easy and user friendly", it just works out-of-the-box.

If then someone wants to change the editor app (like I did) he probably is enough experience to do a small search on internet end browse system settings with gconf-editor

best regards

PS= don't misunderstand me.. I think MeMenu is great, and I'm very happy with what you have done. Your work is really impressive! I just wanted to give some advice about how it could be made even better, but it is just my personal opinion.
Moreover.. I'm not a programmer, so I will just use you decide to develop, and I will be happy with it!