Do not appear in Startup Applications

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-bluetooth - 3.0.1-0ubuntu2

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gnome-bluetooth (3.0.1-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't display in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn values (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:55 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-keyring - 3.0.3-2ubuntu1

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gnome-keyring (3.0.3-2ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/05_onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:58:55 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package vino - 3.1.2-0ubuntu2

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vino (3.1.2-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:30:25 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-disk-utility - 3.0.0-1ubuntu2

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gnome-disk-utility (3.0.0-1ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/05_onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:55:56 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-user-share - 3.0.0-2ubuntu2

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gnome-user-share (3.0.0-2ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/06_nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/07_onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:22:57 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.112ubuntu2

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update-notifier (0.112ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * data/update-notifier.desktop.in:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:42:50 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package xdg-user-dirs-gtk - 0.8-1ubuntu2

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xdg-user-dirs-gtk (0.8-1ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:51:52 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-power-manager - 3.0.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-power-manager (3.0.2-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/15-nodisplay-autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/16-onlyshowin-unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:38:34 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package libcanberra - 0.28-0ubuntu6

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libcanberra (0.28-0ubuntu6) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
  * debian/patches/03_onlyshowin_unity.patch:
    - Add Unity to OnlyShowIn (LP: #803519)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:03:38 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.3.3+20110602-0ubuntu3

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system-config-printer (1.3.3+20110602-0ubuntu3) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/21_nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:31:56 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package zeitgeist-datahub - 0.7.0-0ubuntu2

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zeitgeist-datahub (0.7.0-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/nodisplay_autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:30:07 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.23-0ubuntu2

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pulseaudio (1:0.9.23-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Daniel T Chen ]
  * Add the following patches backported from upstream git:
    - aa7bc32 (parecord: Automatically detect file format from extension)
      [series patch 0208]
    - 226ddb1 (alsa-sink: fix mmap_write() work_done) [series patch 0209]
  * Update debian/copyright to cover echo-cancel files.

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * 0016-nodisplay-autostart.patch:
    - Don't show in "Startup Applications" (LP: #803917)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:56:15 +0100

This seems to affect Ubuntu Oneiric only (compared to previous releases as well as Fedora 16).
I'm having a hard time explaining how to disable a hidden item for one user in Startup Applications?

Would it be possible to expand gnome-session-properties to ignore NoDisplay value:

$ gnome-session-properties --hidden

This would be a much simpler workaround compared to editing multiple files (that may be written over by an updated package).

> I'm having a hard time explaining how to disable a hidden item for one user in Startup Applications?

why do you need to disable system services this way? Could you give examples? Those autostarts are often conditional to a gsettings or a configuration option and the natural place to disable the service should be in the corresponding config dialog and not to have to workaround by editing autostart launchers

Here are some examples:

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

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)

> 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)