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

[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:51, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>

This still leaves, of course, the problem of how to "de-register" these accounts/applications if a user stops using them.

A typical usage pattern (in my experience) is to try several different applications that serve the same purpose before discarding most of them and focusing on one.

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