Re: [ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 09:27 +0530, Stereotactic wrote: Is Ubuntu Tweak really required? It's not really required, most of it is available via gconf-editor. Why not ship with the enhancements built in? AFAIK, most of the enhancements are available by default. You don't really need Ubuntu tweak, it just gives an easier/prettier GUI. Or Do you mean include Ubuntu tweak by default? If you want to know more about why including is not good, there was a huge discussion why not to use Ubuntu tweak and why it might be harmful to a new user in the Ubuntu-MOTU mailing list. (IIRC, The discussion was within the last year, You could check out the archives.) -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: Or Do you mean include Ubuntu tweak by default? If you want to know more about why including is not good, there was a huge discussion why not to use Ubuntu tweak and why it might be harmful to a new user in the Ubuntu-MOTU mailing list. (IIRC, The discussion was within the last year, You could check out the archives.) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2010-August/thread.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2010-August/thread.htmlThe fun discussion from the last cycle. Cheers Nigel -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak
On 03/20/2011 01:17 PM, Nigel Babu wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com mailto:v...@ubuntu.com wrote: SNIPPED https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2010-August/thread.html The fun discussion from the last cycle. Oh, very informative! Thats why Ubuntu developers are not very keen with the idea of anything that improves Ubuntu. One more thing. If you look closely, their only argument against Ubuntu Tweak is lack of security. So be it. People more knowledgeable than me are better placed than me to comment on the same. Cheers Nigel Thanks Nigel. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak
On 03/20/2011 08:45 PM, Stereotactic wrote: Oh, very informative! Thats why Ubuntu developers are not very keen with the idea of anything that improves Ubuntu. One more thing. If you look closely, their only argument against Ubuntu Tweak is lack of security. So be it. People more knowledgeable than me are better placed than me to comment on the same. Not on lack of security but posing a security risk. As Scott Kitterman mentions that it adds a bunch ofthird-party untrusted repos. This is a bad move to have a package in official repo which adds untrusted repos. It is not that Ubutnu devs don't want to improve Ubuntu, but there needs a line to be drawn. Ubuntu Tweak exposes a few features which should be *mostly* hidden from non-technical users. If something goes wrong, then they wont be able to guess what actually happened. -- Manish -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak
It seems to remind me of Automatix, the all (in) famous script that automated everything. Is Ubuntu Tweak really required? Why not ship with the enhancements built in? For newbies, Linux Mint has improved on the user interface to a large extent. Their package management has become better with Linux Mint 10. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
