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Documented?

Posted Nov 11, 2009 15:11 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Documented? by russell
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 in September 2010

It's just a tool for enabling/disabling features that are rarely used.

It's not a development tool. It's really a administrative tool. You can use
it for setting up a desktop and then use that account for building
configuration scripts and whatnot.


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Documented?

Posted Nov 13, 2009 4:39 UTC (Fri) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]

I was not very clear what I was meaning.

I don't have a problem with gconf-editor, it's just a tool, rather, it bugs me ( and others ) that the options visible to users are decided by a very narrow view of what people do. If not, the proliferation of options would be huge. That doesn't stop people from wanting to customise, have options, and do things there own way.

One change I would welcome to the way GNOME does things would be to put a visibility flag next to each of the gconf options ( where possible ) to make that customisation available through preferences.

Then we could all satisfy our own use cases without pushing anything on each other.

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