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

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 09/11/09 11:11:
> 
> Martín Soto wrote:
>...
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be possible to show only
>> those applications for which the user has already configured accounts?
>> Without account access data, they won't work anyway, so, why listing
>> them at all?
> 
> That's a good idea too! Especially for non-default apps. I don't think
> we want to do that for default apps though. MPT?
>...

The design for Lucid follows this basic approach. "An application should
register itself only if, and as long as, you have an account or
analogous configuration set up in that application (for example, an
e-mail account or a feed subscription). This avoids the problem where
you cannot remove an application installed by another user from your own
messaging menu without having to learn its configuration interface (when
in the worst case, the application might not even be available in a
language you can read)." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#API>

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