Comment 2 for bug 829673

I believe gnome-session-properties -- or any successor to it -- would not be an appropriate interface for configuring whether the menu is visible, for three reasons. First, people do not think of the network menu as something that is "started" or "launched". Second, any change in whether it is visible should apply instantly, not on next login. And third, the clock menu has -- and some other status menus will have -- settings for what is inside them, the setting for whether that kind of menu is present at all should be immediately above those extra settings, and the setting for whether any status menu is present at all should be in the equivalent place regardless of whether that menu has extra settings.

For similar reasons, administrative items that were shown in gnome-session-properties are being moved to more appropriate places. <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-startup-applications>

Each individual menu does not take much space, but that's the logic that led to the Windows notification area disaster. :-) They add up. So I'm not making an exception for the network menu here; for the equivalent in other menus see bug 829690, bug 829664, bug 811769, and bug 829648.