Ian,
I point you to the Ubuntu power users community. There is a need for a advanced configuration tool - but as a part of the "Putting safety into our work" thread on there, I think someone mentioned that if such a "Ubuntu/Unity tweak tool" was installed by default, it would need to have a warning explaining "Oy, you can break your system like this." the first time you ran it, similar to the way the Synaptic package manager did. I disagree. The current setup is fine. Most users will never need nor want to modify any of the settings that gnome-tweak-tool provides. For the users that do it'svery easy to learn where the settings are and how to get them.
Gnome-tweak-tool provides access to a lot of irrelevant settings. In addition to overwhelming the user with options, it exposes settings specific to gbome-shell, which is not installed. The presence of these options would confuse the user, when they learn that they don't appear to do anything.
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