Changing backgrounds

I don't see this has a huge problem.

Just use gconf-editor

I find using that a lot easier then navigating KDE's option menus. 


Seriously. It's not that bad.

For example for blinking cursors you go:

ctrl-f
checkmark "search also key names"
type 'blink'
hit 'enter'

First two finds are:
/desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink_time
/desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink

The first one tells me:
"Length of the cursor blink cycle, in milliseconds"
Soo.. no that's not it.

The second one tells me:
"Whether the cursor should blink"

I uncheck it. 

The change is immediate.


That's not that bad. It's a obscure setting that few people want. Why clutter up everything
with a billion options?

I can understand getting irritated that previously options that are set get unset, of course. 

But we don't need a 1001 GUIs or windows with a billion icons on them representing every
single obscure option imaginable. It's just not worth it.


Seriously. People who are a serious Gnome users need to use gconf-editor.

There are descriptions for most options that are not blindingly obvious.

For example; clicking through metacity's options I found how to enable it's compositing mode
and to enable low-resource mode.  For nautilus I found how to change the 'my computer' name.
All sorts of other stuff.