-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph, On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Christoph Vigano wrote:

Do we have any recommendations for this? Should I remove it or leave it to the user to deactivate the autostarting of nagstamon by removing the corresponding .desktop file?

Per XDG specifications, it is not necessary to remove the file in /etc/xdg/autostart to deactivate .desktop files resident there: the user need only place a .desktop file with the same name in $HOME/.config/autostart with the attribute Hidden=true and any XDG compliant autostart mechanism will ignore that file. I show gnome-keyring installing 3 files there, gconf installing one, network-manager-applet installing one, polkit-gnome installing one, dhcpcd-ui installing one, blueman installing one, at-spi2-core installing one, and bbkeys installing one (that's mine). Arch Linux packages are so inconsistent in their behaviour in this regard that it just doesn't matter: it must be constantly managed. A tool that configures autostart needs a .desktop file somewhere to know about the app at all. Unfortunately, most that are eligible for /etc/xdg/autostart should not appear on an applications menu and needs NoDisplay=true if it is placed in /usr/share/applications instead. An autostart tool needs to then ignore this setting to offer it to the user (so it can be placed into $HOME/.config/autostart). In general I prefer that they be placed into /etc/xdg/autostart so that they can be more simply overridden with Hidden=true in /etc/xdg/autostart instead of trying to dig them out of /usr/share/applications and trying to determine whether they are eligible for autostart. (Some have X-GNOME-Autostart-Enable=true so that it doesn't matter where they reside, but that is non-standard.) Well, that's my take. - --brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFRevfQMYOP2up1d2URAjIBAKCxucJ3Z/Ug6L6hthtpiKnDceOf8ACghjHE MHpvWouhMUYuZQ8GxvoUw3s= =Ze5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----