On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:34 +0000, Matthew East wrote: > Although your first point is one worth considering, I don't think the > last sentence is logical. There are no obvious reasons to remove the > system menu - it contains a lot of crucial applications. On the other > hand, even though I haven't done it myself, there are obvious reasons > for some people to remove the FUSA applet: it takes up a lot of panel > space because it has the user's name by it, and for the majority of > people who just have one user account, they are pretty likely to > remember their name already.
I think that they're roughly equivalent in likelyhood. Figuring out how to remove applets from the panel is rather difficult, and should not be encouraged. > Maybe the solution is to remove the name, making the applet smaller, I > don't know - after all the applet is no longer really about switching > user, it will be used a lot more often to shut down the computer and > log off. This is a supported preference. You can replace your name with an icon, I've seen people do that. The other feature that most people will loose is the ability to use the guest session feature. Personally, I do use that feature and would miss it if gone. Also it's important to note that with the messaging indicator in the current Jaunty the default for Pidgin is to not show it's status in the notification area. Without the FUSA applet it would be a pain for users to change their IM status also. > I'm still vaguely annoyed that we have to go to the trouble of > patching Gnome documentation about this though, it seems to me that > the correct approach would have been to convince upstream that this is > the right way to go, and then feed the work in that way. Any serious > deltas with Gnome that makes it necessary to patch their documentation > are unfortunate because not only do we need to write and maintain the > patch as upstream documentation changes, but our translators have to > translate the new strings too. We have talked with upstream about this several times. They are now adding similar functionality to the user switch applet with the new GDM. All changes from upstream are difficult, but unfortunately to innovate we're required to make some changes. -- When FUSA applet has shutdown/logout items are duplicated in "System" menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
