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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

		--Ted

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