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gTweakUI 0.0.6 released

Submitted by Twigman on Tue, 2004-06-08 18:36. Gnome 2.x

gTweakUI is a collection of extra preference dialogs for GNOME 2.0+. It is a front end to GConf, for power users.
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gTweakUI 0.0.6 has been released.So far we have three dialogs:

Extra Menu Preferences
Extra Session Preferences
Extra Nautilus Preferences

This release is beta but it is very usable right now. We plan to add more dialogs soon including galeon, panels, panel objects(menus etc) and gtk2 theme colors.
If you want to help out we need translators (41 strings at the moment), coders, artists, etc.. feel free to join the mailing list on our homepage and introduce yourself.

Why not?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-06-11 17:11.

There has been many posts explaining that gTweakUI won't be a part of GNOME. I don't see why it couldn't be.

As far as I can understand it, the philosophy of GNOME is to put only essential preferences visible. Not to assume that users are dumb. At the moment we have some preferences visible and others available in gconf-editor. Those visible preferencefes are usually chosen to be the ones that users need often and the ones available in gconf-editor are options that users need to set only once or are rarely needed.

At the moment I'm still using XD2. In "System" menu it has items

"Personal settings" and

"Adminstrator settings"

among others. Why not add there an item

"Application (extra) settings"?

This would include all the settings available in gconf-editor, that is, the gTweakUI. Doing it like this it wouldn't contradict the philosophy of GNOME. Applications would still have limited, but still essential preferences. And other possible preferences would be accesible via this "Application (extra) settings".

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