On 25 Jan 2003 22:21:05 -0500 Sean Harshbarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:13, Andrew Lau wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:22:46PM +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > > > Turn off the gconf setting > > > > /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop(by using gconf-editor, > > > > for example). > > > > > > O lord this sound way to much like something on that other > > > operating system. > > > > I'll have to agree with you there. It's starting to annoy me how in > > an effort to make userfriendly and GNOME HIG (Human Interface > > Guideline) compliant, more and more of its advanced options are > > disappearing from the preferences dialogs and can only be changed > > messing with gconf. Galeon 2 (galeon-snapshot) is a prime example of > > this nonsense. In my opinion, if GNOME keeps heading this way, it's > > going to start alienating some of its more intermediate to advanced > > users. > > > The idea is to taylor for the new user and the advanced user. If you > are new you dont need to mess with the settings in gconf. 90% of new > users leave things as is anyway. All the advanced users on the planet > will want to customize deeper then whats graphically presented and > since gconf has the more "dangerous" (not the exact word I would use) > they can just go there and do it. Its about making a desktop everyone > can use. Granted it does look and feel like that other OS...but it > helps to trim the fat where its not needed all the time. Well i understand your point, but well tell me how i can (in a clean way) remove gconf personnal settings ? I removed galeon-snapshots, removed ~/.galeon-snapshot but oh, surprise didn't thought i had too a galeon-snapshot gconf entry ... how can i remove it ? The only solution i found is to remove ~/.gconf/apps/galeon-snapshot ... It creates two preferences locations... only one should be enough, don't you think ? I'm not sure gconf is really a good solution, because once all gnome apps are going to use it will become quite hard to manage i think... for now only a few applications are using it so it's not too hard to manage with something like gconf-editor (since you don't want to remove anything) One bug for example : i removed galeon-snapshot but i still have the gconf options when i run gconf-editor ... hum, going to run "rm -rf /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/galeon-snapshot" but well i hope it was only a packaging bug... Julien
