Messaging Menu

User should be able to set preferred Chat client

Bug #581241 reported by K900
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Messaging Menu
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Bug Description

I use Pidgin instead of Empathy, but even when I run Pidgin there still is a "set up chat" button in the Messaging Menu (can't say it is the original text, I use Russian locale). What most users expect is that when they use some other IM or e-mail client it should substitute empathy or evolution in the Messaging Menu

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Beetroot Dog (beetrootdog) wrote :

Yes. At the very least, we should have access to some settings for the indicator applet. I would disable the "Broadcast" option since I would never use it and the Chat one since Pidgin is already in that menu.

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K900 (k0009000) wrote :

It's not the way I see it. The idea is:
Before Pidgin:
|[V]|
 - Set up chat
- Set up e-mail
- Set up broadcast

Pidgin installed:
|[V]|
 - Set up chat (Pidgin)
- Set up chat (Empathy)
- Set up e-mail
- Set up broadcast

Pidgin installed and configured:
|[V]|
 - Chat
- Set up e-mail
- Set up broadcast

Added Thunderbird:
|[V]|
 - Chat
- Set up e-mail (Thunderbird)
- Set up e-mail (Evolution)
- Set up broadcast

Configured Thunderbird:
|[V]|
 - Chat
- E-mail [Thunderbird shortcut]
- Set up broadcast

Configured Empathy (or any other app)

|[V]|
- Chat (Empathy)
- Chat (Pidgin)
- E-mail
- Set up broadcast

So you have the choice and don't have that annoying Set up chat thingy when your chat client (Pidgin) is set up already

Ted Gould (ted)
affects: indicator-applet → indicator-messages
Changed in indicator-messages:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Messaging Menu doesn't recognize pidgin as a chat client
+ User should be able to set preferred Chat client
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Beetroot Dog (beetrootdog) wrote :

Why not just rename them as below and be done with it:

"Set up Chat" -> "Set up Empathy"
"Set up Mail" -> "Set up Evolution"
"Set up Broadcast Account" -> "Set up Gwibber"

If they are not generic, do not give them generic names.

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Lars Karlitski (larsu) wrote :

Starting from Quantal, the messaging menu will not have default entries anymore, only applications that are configured to use the menu will show up [1].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu

Changed in indicator-messages:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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