Adding to Unity in my opinion is a bad idea, its very rare to add/remove programs to/from startup there is no need to clutter up Unity with this. Improving the existing startup application editor is where improvements should be made. I may look into this again when I have some free time, the problem is that the GtkAppChooserWidget cannot be used directly as its made for opening an application for a certain file typ, a custom widget needs to be written to display all known applications/possibly with a search option.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140918 Title: Adding stuff to autostart is too difficult Status in The GNOME 2 Session Manager: New Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-session Getting stuff added to autostart is much too difficult. First of all, guessing that it's in System->Settings->Sessions is not very obvious. Second of all, actually adding stuff to the list is close to impossible if you're not familiar with the layout of the Linux filesystem. Possible solutions in order of preference: 1) Add it to the context menu in the gnome menu. If a program is set to autostart, make this obvious by putting a tiny emblem of some sort in its menu entry. 2) Add a new (sucks, I know) entry to the system->settings menu called "Autostart" or something. In there, present the list of stuff that's in the gnome menu and put a checkbox next to each entry to make it start automatically. 3) Keep the tab in the gnome-session-preferences, and replace the current "Add" dialog with a widget that allows you to select a program from the gnome menu and hide the "Add" dialog under some sort of "Advanced" thing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-session/+bug/140918/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
