Posted Jul 28, 2011 18:06 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
Parent article: Desktop name collisions
as long as the different projects disagree on what should be configurable by the user, the tools to make the configuration changes will differ.
It would be really good if the different tools could be modifying the same underlying configuration, so that no matter which tool you use, the changes will affect every application.