IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows' (InformationWeek)

While I don't actually object to the idea of an "advanced" tab, I neither want nor need all
the settings in my face at all times.  One of the things I like about FVWM is that it's "set
and forget".  On those rare occasions (once every few years) when I actually want to change a
setting, I fire up my text editor.  The rest of the time, the settings are "out of sight, out
of mind", which is how I like it.  If it's something you only use every few years, what's the
point of even an "advanced settings" tab cluttering up the screen?  It's just one more random
thing distracting you from actually getting some work done.

While I'm not a fan of either Gnome or KDE, I find Gnome's approach far more promising.  Gnome
seems like something that could be turned into a decent desktop environment with a bit of
work; KDE doesn't.

So I don't think that "digging through gconf-editor to find and enable an option" is a bad
thing.  I think it's ideal, as long as those options are things I don't want to muck with all
the time, which, for the most part, they seem to be, from what I've seen.  Granted, the system
needs better documentation (unlike FVWM, which is extensively documented), but that's a common
complaint for FLOSS systems.