On 06/15/2011 08:23 PM, Tim wrote:
> Not everything will fit on the DVD, so you install extras, afterwards.
>
> Gnome reckons you don't need to configure it to death, so many things
> are preset, and customisation requires fiddling under the hood.
>
I suspect that these two are the main reasons.
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:18 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I don't want to start Yet Another Flame War,
Yet, he asks the question that's gonna do it... ;-)
> but does anybody know how or why such seemingly-obvious tools were
> left out? Was it just a case of "so many programs, so little time?"
Hasn'
On 06/15/2011 03:02 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> You are not missing anything, gnome 3 is missing a lot of things!
> Certainly proper configuration tools. And proper documentation to
> explain the 'inner workings'.
I don't want to start Yet Another Flame War, but does anybody know how
or why s
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:37:24 -0500
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Only a very minimal set of keys can be displayed to be manipulated in
> dconf-editor. The ones that gconf-editor shows that actually control
> things like mice and windows focus I can not find in dconf-editor.
Yea, things definitely appear
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:37:24PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Now I am really confused. Both gconf-editor and dconf-editor come up
> with the alias Configuration Editor, so I assume only one of them can
> show up in the menu of applications. dconf-editor does not show up even
> if gconf is not
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 20:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 05:14 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > But first don't you mean gconf-editor rather than dconf-editor? The
> > latter when installed does not show up in the menus of Gnome3 and seems
> > to me rather obscure to use. At least I can
On 06/15/2011 05:14 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> But first don't you mean gconf-editor rather than dconf-editor? The
> latter when installed does not show up in the menus of Gnome3 and seems
> to me rather obscure to use. At least I can't figure out how to use it.
dconf / gsettings is the replacemen
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 19:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 06:53 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Ok , I accept your point. Then why is gnome-tweak-tool not included by
> > default? One needs this program too configure Gnome 3
>
> It is not part of default GNOME. It is a extra (essenti
