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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

It's expressly desirable to be able to remove the display of an
application from the messaging menu, and we'll provide a sample pattern
for the configuration option that apps could follow.

Mark

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