Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 02:49, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree with your principle that "you shouldn't have to worry about
things like 'the process is running'".

If you shouldn't have to care whether a program is running or not, there's already a place for that: the session. The session should contain all the applications that should always be expected to be running. They should probably even be restarted if they ever exit or crash. They should be turned on/off via the indicator's status menu.

Having a launcher in the messaging menu for every installed program that has indicator support just isn't a good idea. It's manageable now, because very few programs support the indicator. When 10-20 ubuntu-standard applications are filling that menu up, it's going to make the whole thing a lot less useful.

I believe strongly that the only things that should show up in the menu should be the things that are *currently running*, or in the very least are explicitly listed as the ones that should show up as launchers in the menu, either via a whitelist/blacklist preference dialog.