Based on what I knew at the time of writing that comment I'll stand by it
being a feature that a user would has to implicitly ask for by installing
Gnome Shell and Epiphany, and explicitly by setting them with an IM account.
Much like asking for a bullet by pointing a gun at your head and pulling the
trigger. An analogy I find highly relevant to the subject at hand, which is
after all Gnome Shell. =x
1) Well yes, it's obviously not a particularly sane default, I agree. And
yeah, if the Trisquel devs wanna shoot people in the foot with the bullshit
that is Gnome Shell, that's their right of course. At least in later versions
it's not quite as ridiciously hungry for RAM as, say, KDE's silly widget
desktop monstrosity was last I tried it.. xD
2) You don't have to let gnome / epiphany / whatever handle your IM accounts.
It's an opt-in by definition. It's not like Gnome Shell goes into your pidgin
settings, takes the information, and then sets up it's own system with them.
3) Yeah, not a sane default, but that doesn't mean it's a bug.
I see no reason to, as I have no desire to use Gnome Shell, nor would it run
particularly well on a netbook, which is currently the only place I still run
Trisquel.
This is not a "serious privacy issue", it's a poorly implemented feature,
nothing more. Even if there's no option to disable this behaviour, that's not
a bug either, just a missing feature.
So call the subject of this thread what it is, a feature request, not a
critical bug.
For the record, I completely agree with adding a toggle for this behaviour
and disabling it by default.
