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FS#44161 - [wicd-gtk] Remove /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paolo (peoro) - Thursday, 12 March 2015, 02:22 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 13 March 2015, 00:33 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I don't regularly use Wicd, but want to anyway keep it installed anyway, just in case the other network managers break and I need a working network manager with a decent GUI to quickly connect to some networks.
Every time I start my system, wicd-gtk is running, and even opens an annoying popup complaining about being unable to talk to the wicd daemon.
I'm manually removing /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop, but this file gets recreated every time the package gets updated.

Could you please stop including this file in the package?
I don't think any package should autostart itself (this is not Debian!), especially a graphical package like wicd (yeah, I could maybe tolerate some daemons), because:
- this cannot be permanently stopped (i.e. reinstalling/updating the package sets the autostart thing every time).
- this affect every user of the system, and only root can stop it.
- if the wicd daemon is not running, an useless and annoying popup opens up every time any user logs in.

Thanks!
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 13 March 2015, 00:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#24763 

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