Disable Vidalia new identity feature
At some point, we want to provide a robust and strict New Identity feature (#5629 (closed)).
Until this is done, we want to remove Vidalia’s New identity menu entry because its actual pros and cons are unclear and confusing for end users who often believe it provides them a fresh new Tails environment, which is very wrong.
We need to add a Vidalia boolean setting to hide that menu entry. No UI would be needed to set/unset this option.
This could be combined with other options we would like to use for Tails in Vidalia, for example not showing the ‘Start Tor’/’Stop Tor’ options either.
Note that New Identity is renamed to New Circuit in Vidalia 0.3.x (Rename "New Identity" to "New Circuit", which is unlikely to significantly change the aforementioned problems, so the planned solutions still seems valid.
Related issues
- Related to #6844 (closed)
- Related to #7471 (closed)
- Related to #5939 (closed)
- Related to #5629 (closed)
- Related to #5438 (closed)
Original created by @tails on 5716 (Redmine)