Hide 'Software Sources' from the System > Administration menu

I'm not sure I agree with this change at all, my users make heavy use of this being easily accessible. The directions at http://www.winehq.org/download/deb, for instance, would need to be more involved.

Have you user tested this? Have you seen users going to Software Sources unintentionally? Do you think the Administration menu too crowded?

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.76.2

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software-properties (0.76.2) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * fix ftbfs

  [ Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi ]
  * data/software-properties-gtk.desktop.in: Menu entry is now hidden
    (LP: #624072)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:19:47 +0200

Scott, Once the user adds ppa for wine, how does the user install/update wine?
Doesnt the user have to then bring up Synaptic or USC / update manager ?
Instead we are reducing twice the action user requires and making the sources akin to 'Preferences' we see every other application but instead for softwares here.

Rather than making Software Sources feel like a separate entity. They are now living as a preferences menu.

Vish: if you look at the link, they install wine1.3 with an apt-url link. If they already had Wine installed, update manager would upgrade it for them.

Now with this change we've added an extra step, and I'm not sure it's helpful.

Scott, No,Update manager does not pop-up on its own. [ I'v tried that again, even now]
We need to remember that the default update-manager behavior is to not prompt for updates everyday.
So, if a non-security update is available it wont automatically pop-up until 7days have passed since the last update.
There are so many ways[ex:apt-pinning] for update manager to not appear after we add a ppa. Moving it as a preferences avoids those scenarios. [for apt-pinning, we need to use synaptic , maybe something that needs to be looked into for USC as well.]

Scott, it looks to me as if the instructions will need one changed step and one extra step, both of which are compatible with previous versions of Ubuntu.

The changed step is that "Open the Software Sources menu by going to System->Administration->Software Sources" should become "Open Update Manager (System > Administration > Update Manager), and click Settings".

The extra step is at the end: "Click 'Check'."

Apparently the fix did not work! , The menu item is still visible in System > Administration. Re-opening bug

The problem was True was set with a capital ! :)
Changing :
NoDisplay=True

to

NoDisplay=true

Works..!

[Thanks to kiwinote for pointing this out.]

@Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi , new merge? ;)

@Vish: of course :)

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.76.5

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software-properties (0.76.5) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi ]
  * data/software-properties-gtk.desktop.in: desktop file is now really
    hidden (LP: #624072)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:23:11 +0200

Confirmed , its truly gone now! ;-)