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[Eylem Koca <eylemkoca@xxxxxxxxx>]

Completely agreed with you there. Asking for that certain 
gnome-tweak-tool by default does not make sense. Ubuntu must develop its 
own system customization tool and ship it by default.

Eylem


On 10/16/11 8:49 AM, Christian Rupp wrote:
> Nice would be a simple tweak tool which provides things like font and 
> - size or opacity
>
> Am 16.10.2011 13:41, schrieb James Gifford:
> > 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.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > James Gifford
> >
> > On Oct 16, 2011, at 2:38, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:isantop@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > On Oct 15, 2011 8:53 PM, "Roland Taylor" <rolandixor@xxxxxxxxx 
> > > <mailto:rolandixor@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On 10/15/2011 03:09 PM, James Gifford wrote:
> > > >     Hello Brandon,
> > > >
> > > >     This is something that has been discussed before - it'd be
> > > >     better to create a "system tweak tool" that handles everything
> > > >     - think ccsm, gnome-tweak-tool and ubuntu tweak all in one.
> > > >
> > > >     Cheers,
> > > >     James Gifford
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Brandon Watkins
> > > >     <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         I've seen many reactions to the new ubuntu 11.10 release,
> > > >         and one veyr common critisism is missing settings
> > > >         (particularly font settings. The excellent gnome-tweak-tool
> > > >         brings back almost all of the commonly missed settings and
> > > >         a lot of new users don't seem to know about it. This is
> > > >         really something that should be installed by default in ubuntu.
> > > >
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