GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 14:24 UTC (Thu) by mightyduck (subscriber, #23760)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by tjw.org
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

I made the change with gconf-editor but it still didn't work at first.
Now I switched to KDE 3.5 and the gtk-key-theme suddenly works! I have no
idea why it decided to respect my settings now. The only thing which
started up together with firefox is gconfd-2. Maybe that's the
gnome-settings-daemon which makes it work? I don't know.

Anyway, thanks for all the hints, but my point is that it's extremely
complicated even for experienced users to change such simple things.
Maybe GNOME should provide an "idiot" and a "poweruser" mode if they
don't want to confuse their doctors. Then at least the ones who want to
tweak obscure settings and know what they're doing can switch to
"poweruser" and mess up their UI in whatever way THEY want. I still
believe the UI should adapt to the user and not the other way around.

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