I agree 100% I occasionally use Evolution, I may sometimes use Empathy but my main apps are Thunderbird and Pidgin. Indicator applet shows that Pidgin has messages, but will offer to start Empathy and Evolution. It will not offer to Start Thunderbird or Pidgin. I will rarely want to start Evolution or Empathy and certainly do not want them clogging up the Indicator Applet menu, so I want to be able to control what is on that menu.
In bug 410220, Mark Shuttleworth states that the way to control this is to go into the application concerned - e.g. Evolution, and use it's preferences to disable that application's appearance on the Indicator Applet. Personally I think this is nonsensical, because: 1) it simply does not occur to people that that is the way to control if an application appears in another application. 2) Many of these applications require that you set up an account and configure them before you can get into the menu system to turn off it's appearance in the Indicator Applet. My initial reaction to the these applications appearing by default in the indicator applet was to uninstall them. If I can't get the indicator applet to do what I want, then I may be tempted to uninstall that too, or remove it from the panel. I think people are more likely to do that than configure Evolution to not appear in the Indicator Applet. Controlling which apps appear on the Indicator Applet from the indicator applet is sensible and consistent. Controlling which apps appear on the indicator applet from the individual application themselves is tedious and not intuitive, and in some cases may not be possible - e.g. do you think Thunderbird will let you add a "Show this application in the Ubuntu Indicator Applet" menu item? You don't choose the default mail handling program and default internet browsing program from within the said mail program and browser, so why should you control their appearance on the indicator applet from within the relevant application. I have no problem with it being an indicator that there are messages for you. However, if it's going to be a program launcher too, then it should let you control what it launches. These bugs are relevant, especially the 2nd where Mark Shuttleworth says this is the way it's going to be. :-( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/429569 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410220 MS -- Can't set other apps to be on indicator-applet by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468007 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
