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On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 16:14 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Providing users with another way to launch applications is an
> inaccurate rationale. It is a message indicator, not a message
> dashboard. 

It is named "messaging menu" ;) , in the wiki, I guess they expected
this naming conflict before-hand.

But seriously , the names of the ayatana apps are too similar,
indicator-session [previously indicator-applet-sus] , indicator-applet ,
indicator-*

If its messaging menu , labeling the applet similarly would lead to less
of such confusions!

> I should only be going to the MI when I have messages, and
> not when I do not. The MI is only relevant when I have messages which
> occur of applications which are running and have given me messages, or
> might have closed with unread messages. Any application which does not
> have a message is irrelevant to the MI.
> 

Its really not clear why you think this is not a good feature?
Is it a personal preference, you dont like them there ? or is this
violating some interface design principle? [Just curious , since you are
an interface designer,question not meant to be rude :) ]

This option to launch and view all messaging apps in one location is
actually quite a nice feature. 
To me , its like "Everything related to messaging resides here, you can
start it from here, see any new events here ... , you dont have to look
anywhere else."


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Cheers,
mac_v