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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

On top of that, we will have MyUnity included in the repos for 12.04, so it
will be easy to install a Unity tweak tool, and for users who don't know
what they're doing, there is no possibility of getting confused or breaking
something.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:51, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think it's particularly true that, "Ubuntu Tweak and similar tools
> (concerning Unity) will not break anything".
>
> Ubuntu Tweak still offers "computer janitor" which has been known to
> confuse many end users, and even further if you "hover" the mouse pointer
> in the wrong area in some "tweak areas" and "scroll" you can easily change
> things with no obvious way to restore defaults.
>
> Don't get me wrong, it's a great tool. I love using it to play with themes
> in Gnome 3, regardless of DE, but it's far from mature enough to be
> included in the repos.
>
> --- On *Wed, 12/14/11, Roland Taylor <rolandixor@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Roland Taylor <rolandixor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Tweak
> To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 10:17 PM
>
>
> I respectfully disagree. The options that can be tweaked from Ubuntu Tweak
> and similar tools (concerning Unity) will not break anything, and for the
> most part can be changed on the fly (without restarting that is).
>
> There is no reason not to include such a tool by default.
>
> On 12/14/2011 05:00 PM, Ian Santopietro wrote:
> > I think the theory here is that users who want to do it generally know
> (or can find out) how to install these tools, and those who could break
> something won't have the option visible.
> >
> > -- Ian Santopietro
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> > On Wed 14 Dec 2011 01:27:05 PM MST, Christian Rupp wrote:
> >> The options to change unity are very rarely installed by default...
> >> Wouldn't it be nice to implement the tweaks options for apperance
> >> somewhere in the system settings?
> >>
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Ian Santopietro

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