Package: gconf-editor Version: 2.22.0-1 Severity: minor >From "aptitude show gconf-editor":
This is not the recommended way of setting desktop preferences, ... "That's not very helpful," is the upshot of this report. :-) ... but it might be useful when the proper configuration utility for some software provides no way of changing some option. I think it would be useful to change "This is not" to $BLAH where BLAH == "$(whatever_IS_the recommended_way) is". Eg.: Your preferred Desktop Manager is the recommended way of setting desktop preferences, but this might be useful when the proper configuration utility for some software provides no way of changing some option. I'm assuming here that that's what you meant? ------------- Hi. This is a laptop. I've a few others running here, but it's my primary machine. I'm one of those so-called corner-cases in that I don't use Gnome/KDE. I install a minimal base, then augment with fluxbox and run startx from CLI. Meaning, I don't have what you may assume to be, "the recommended way of setting desktop preferences," installed. So, I go looking in the packaging system for a way to control Gnome apps, find gconf-editor, and your description tells me not to use it, and offers no simple alternative. Hence, the above alternative. I hate the way modern X stuff (Gnome, KDE, ...) essentially ignore X resources. However, I'm willing to learn how the new way works for the few apps of that ilk I use, as long as I don't need to suffer Gnome/KDE. Thanks for all your efforts. Have fun. I think Lenny's teriffic! :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
