I believe gnome-session-properties -- or any successor to it -- would not be an appropriate interface for configuring whether the menu is visible, for three reasons. First, people do not think of the network menu as something that is "started" or "launched". Second, any change in whether it is visible should apply instantly, not on next login. And third, the clock menu has -- and some other status menus will have -- settings for what is inside them, the setting for whether that kind of menu is present at all should be immediately above those extra settings, and the setting for whether any status menu is present at all should be in the equivalent place regardless of whether that menu has extra settings.
For similar reasons, administrative items that were shown in gnome- session-properties are being moved to more appropriate places. <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-startup- applications> Each individual menu does not take much space, but that's the logic that led to the Windows notification area disaster. :-) They add up. So I'm not making an exception for the network menu here; for the equivalent in other menus see bug 829690, bug 829664, bug 811769, and bug 829648. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/829673 Title: No easy way to turn the network menu on/off Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: network-manager 0.8.9997+git.20110721t045648.36db194-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Ocelot 1. Try to work out how to hide the networking menu. (For example, you're using a desktop machine that is always connected by Ethernet.) What happens: There's no obvious way to do it. What should happen: I suggest a checkbox, "Show network status menu in the menu bar", at the bottom of the "Network Connections" window, as shown in <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking?action=AttachFile&do=view&target =settings-window-flight-mode.png> (Never mind that the rest of the window is different.) [Originally reported by "Eustace" in <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/power-cog-icon- oneiric/#comment-291049247>.] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/829673/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
