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Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 410220] Re: Indicator applet Always shows icon




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.

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.

I wouldn't think of it as an override, but more as an explicit mentioning of the effect of disabling all launchers. Think of the user who has just disabled all launchers - hopefully he will notice that the "hide icon" checkbox was just checked, and he will realize (1) that the icon will be hidden and (2) why. He also has the option to make sure the icon isn't hidden.

David


		--Ted

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