Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
I believe strongly that the only things that should show up in the menu should be the things that are *currently running*
It becomes a bit of a guessing game on where you have to go to run/open an application. I'd expect most users to not really understand the difference between running and opening an application.
Right. I also wouldn't expect the user to know the difference between a program that's running and a program that has a launcher by looking at the messaging menu (at least without it saying "Launch: Evolution", which it currently doesn't.
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.
I'm not sure if that should be tackled as a whitelist/blacklist approach or patches against upstream packages though.
This can't be done upstream, and it can't
be done automatically in the package. It depends entirely on which
applications the user actually uses.
If I never use Evolution, but another user on the system does, he/she should see Evolution in his messaging menu. I shouldn't. Given enough applications with indicator support (which I'm really hoping happens), this is the only condition in which I think we can call the indicator menu useful.