On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 13:03 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > 2008/7/31 Mathias Hasselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 12:39 +0200 schrieb Dave Neary: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Vincent Untz wrote: > >> > Short description: > >> > ================== > >> > Conduit is a synchronization architecture for the GNOME desktop. It > >> > provides an intuitive GUI for synchronizing things and a DBus interface > >> > for external applications to do the same. > >> > >> Stepping back for a second (obnoxiously creating a whole new > >> sub-thread), I'd like to say it's a pity that "conduit as architecture" > >> has become conflated with "conduit as GUI application". It's kind of > >> like talking about gconfeditor's GUI when considering gconf for > >> inclusion in the platform. > > > > Well, just adding "conduit as architecture", and deferring inclusion of > > its UI until 2.26 sounds compelling. That way applications can start > > using it. > > See my earlier proposition - just move the menu icon to > system/preferences and hide the status icon.
I'm not completely opposed to this idea. I support removing the status icon, and disabling the start at login behaviour (autostart via DBus will be sufficient) [1]. I don't know If I agree with the icon being in system/preferences however, for two reasons. * If/when a future, improved UI appears, it will probably live in accessories, so why confuse existing conduit users with two moves, once -> system, and once back to accessories. * The system/prefs menus are already very cluttered, often with items that are neither system related, nor preferences, and often its not clear which menu they should belong in. John [1] Dear lazyweb. Is there a 'right way' to programatically manage this 'should I start at login?' behaviour - from inside the app. It seems that installing two .desktop files, and then managing the starting behaviour from the sessions capplet is a bit convoluted. Cant I just rewrite the .desktop file from within conduit to include/exclude some sort of magic autostart key?. Please reply off list. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
