Mark, the reason we had decided on a separate dialog is that where an application requires an account to be useful, it's quite reasonable for the application to offer only an account setup interface at launch, and to exit if you decline. Claws Mail, Emesene, Eva, Sim-IM, Twinkle, and XChat are examples of Ubuntu applications that do this, and the next version of Empathy may too. In these applications, it is not possible to get to any general configuration interface before you have set up an account, so it is not possible to get to the point that would let you remove the application from the messaging menu (and thereby hide the messaging menu). If you are the only person who ever uses the computer, you could apply the nuclear option by uninstalling the unwanted program, but what if you're not? Mary-Beth shouldn't need to go spelunking though the interface of whatever crazy new IM program her son has installed on the computer this week, so that she can find the option to prevent that application from appearing in *her* messaging menu.
An alternative way to solve this problem, perhaps, would be to have a user-specific whitelist of which applications may appear in the menu. That way, Evolution would appear in the menu at all only if you have set up an account in Evolution. Empathy would appear in the menu at all only if you have set up an account in Empathy. And so on. This would diminish the reliability of Mary-Beth telling Mary-Sue over the phone how to get to Evolution if Mary-Sue had never used Evolution before. But perhaps more importantly, it would mean that Mary-Beth would no longer need to become a whiz at navigating preferences dialogs. -- Indicator applet Always shows icon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410220 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
