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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roderick B. Greening wrote:
> Not in my opinion... if it's for "indications/messages" then it has no right 
> to pretend to be anything other than that (i.e. a menu). Trying to be a menu, 
> seems counterintuitive to me. We already have a menu, and presenting the user 
> with two places to look... confusing. IMO.
>   
We will not always have a menu.

> Personally, I only want to see "active" message indications, and not wade 
> through a potentially long list of applications.
Agreed. The default list there should be very small. Anything you
install after that, we can assume you wanted to install (leaving aside
the multi-user case). In the case where one is adding lots of things,
like...
>  Lets assume one could install 
> 10-20 different messaging apps, and they all show up here, how big would the 
> messaging pane appear on your screen in this scenario? 
>   
... one should be able to configure the apps NOT to appear if that's not
the desired outcome of installing them.

> I'm no Ul expert, but that seems rather "clunky". However, if we only show 
> active apps/messages, that list should be substantially smaller (in theory).
>   

... the list needs to be able to *activate* the apps you want quick and
consistent access to, though ;-)

Mark

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