[Bug 803917] Re: Do not appear in Startup Applications

[Sebastien Bacher]

> Here are some examples:

Not good ones though...

> 1) Login sound. Many users want to turn it off.

Right, it will be off by default next cycle and a checkbox to turn it on
or off will be added to the sound configuration dialog which is the
dialog most user look for a such setting

> 2) Guest accounts or dedicated accounts. For example, I use a dedicated account to play music. It's a restricted account with no password, everyone can use it to play music. This account shall never
>  - log into Ubuntu One or even try to (ubuntuone-launch.desktop)
> - display update notifications (update-notifier.desktop)
> - search for drivers (jockey-gtk.desktop)
>- do any social networking (gwibber.desktop, telepathy-indicator.desktop)

The guest accounts example don't work, the user directory for those is recreated at each session....
We are not saying that there is no usecase to disable services, but services should be configuration where it makes sense (the ubuntuone-control-panel for u1, jockey starts only once if your configuration doesn't change, im clients don't do anything if you don't have any account configuration, update-notifier can be tweaked from dconf-editor)

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  Do not appear in Startup Applications

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