Remove the 'Enable Twitter import' checkbox from Twitter admin panel by default; can be re-added with setting:

addPlugin('TwitterBridge', array('adminImportControl' => true, ....));

Added a note on the label that it requires manual daemon setup. (Note that by default the admin panel won't be shown, so it's no biggie to be hiding this for now.)

plugins/TwitterBridge/TwitterBridgePlugin.php

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class TwitterBridgePlugin extends Plugin
 {
 
     const VERSION = STATUSNET_VERSION;
+    public $adminImportControl = false; // Should the 'import' checkbox be exposed in the admin panel?
 
     /**
      * Initializer for the plugin.
@@ -322,5 +323,17 @@ class TwitterBridgePlugin extends Plugin
         return true;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Expose the adminImportControl setting to the administration panel code.
+     * This allows us to disable the import bridge enabling checkbox for administrators,
+     * since on a bulk farm site we can't yet automate the import daemon setup.
+     *
+     * @return boolean hook value;
+     */
+    function onTwitterBridgeAdminImportControl()
+    {
+        return (bool)$this->adminImportControl;
+    }
+
 }
 

plugins/TwitterBridge/twitteradminpanel.php

@@ -92,9 +92,11 @@ class TwitteradminpanelAction extends AdminPanelAction
         );
 
         static $booleans = array(
-            'twitter'       => array('signin'),
+            'twitter'       => array('signin')
-            'twitterimport' => array('enabled')
         );
+        if (Event::handle('TwitterBridgeAdminImportControl')) {
+            $booleans['twitterimport'] = array('enabled');
+        }
 
         $values = array();
 
@@ -155,6 +157,13 @@ class TwitteradminpanelAction extends AdminPanelAction
             );
         }
     }
+
+    function isImportEnabled()
+    {
+        // Since daemon setup isn't automated yet...
+        // @todo: if merged into main queues, detect presence of daemon config
+        return true;
+    }
 }
 
 class TwitterAdminPanelForm extends AdminForm
@@ -263,13 +272,15 @@ class TwitterAdminPanelForm extends AdminForm
         );
         $this->unli();
 
+        if (Event::handle('TwitterBridgeAdminImportControl')) {
             $this->li();
             $this->out->checkbox(
                 'enabled', _m('Enable Twitter import'),
                 (bool) $this->value('enabled', 'twitterimport'),
-            _m('Allow users to import their Twitter friends\' timelines')
+                _m('Allow users to import their Twitter friends\' timelines. Requires daemons to be manually configured.')
             );
             $this->unli();
+        }
 
         $this->out->elementEnd('ul');