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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 15:59, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:34 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > On 09/06/10 05:20, Ted Gould wrote:
> > > I haven't looked at the full schedule for Me Menu yet, but I would
> > > imagine most of the Canonical developer time is going to be sucked up
> > > into the switching of networks and character count features for
> > > Maverick. So, unless a contribution comes from the community it'll
> >
> > Hold on a sec.
> >
> > The API absolutely needs to be general and pluggable, so services "plug
> > in" to the Me Menu. In other words, Gwibber should "insert accounts"
> > there, as should empathy and other online services. And that API is
> > something that third party services should be able to take advantage of.
>
> We have a way to add the menu items to the bottom for the various
> account dialogs.  What we don't have is a way for the text field to go
> to your "preferred social networking client."  It is certainly on the
> TODO list to add that, but I don't believe it will get done for
> Maverick.
>
>
Preferred Applications¹ is a tabbed GNOME settings dialog that needs some
love, honestly.
A Wizard is probably too much, but the current implementation is that there
is a category called "internet", which is useless if you ask me..
Useful would be something Use Case oriented, such as "VoIP" or "Messaging"
or "Communications" for example. It is human-readable and describes a group
of things that belong together.
Will Natty be a reasonable target release for this to work?