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  1. Bug #146918
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 146918

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era (era) wrote : Re: poor descriptions for some startup programs

> There's a bunch of weird things in Startup Programs in Session Preferences
> in Intrepid. Should I post them here, or create a new bug? This bug report is
> rather unwieldy as it is, so perhaps it would be better to create a new one
> for Intrepid.

I never got a reply, so at least I'm enumerating here what I think is wrong.

(Format is Name[en] - Description[en] - my comments.)

"AT SPI Registry Wrapper" - "No description" - noted above

"Bluetooth Manager" - "Bluetooth Manager applet" - package bluez-gnome, adding "New"
The description is completely redundant after you remove "applet" which as noted elsewhere in this bug report is not recommended. Please describe what it does for the user. Suggest "Enable wireless connections to Bluetooth devices such as mobile phones" or some such. (Too long, admittedly, but then maybe the UI should be changed to accommodate longer descriptions.)

"Evolution Alarm Notifier" - "Evolution Alarm Notifier" - noted above

"GNOME Keyring Daemon Wrapper" - "No description" - package gnome-session, should have a description. "Allow applications to access the keyring" perhaps?

"GNOME Login Sound" - "No description" - I guess we can live with this :-)
Or should it say "Boing bling thud ksssssh"?

"GNOME Settings Daemon" - "No description" - package gnome-settings-daemon, "adding "New". "Manage your GNOME session's settings" maybe?

"GNOME Settings Daemon Helper" - "No description" - now this I think has a more fundamental problem. Are there situations where you would want to run the helper but not the daemon itself, or vice versa? Should that be expressed as a preference in the daemon's settings somewhere instead then? IMHO this is exposing an implementation boundary which should not be exposed to the user.

"GNOME Splash Screen" - "No description" - gnome-session. As with the sound above I guess, not really crucial to describe.

"Network Manager" - "Network Manager applet" - as per Gabor Kelemen's comment above, already fixed upstream

"PulseAudio Session Manager" - "Load module-x11-xsmp into PulseAudio" - package pulseaudio-module-x11, adding "New". Wayyy too technical description.

"Window Manager" - "No description" - package gnome-session. I can't help but think this is also a detail which normal users would never want control over.