A clarification of Fedora philosophy.

[Aaron Konstam]

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 (essentially, third
> party) utility for tweaking things which are not regular preferences via
> the control panel.  It is merely a more accessible frontend to gsettings
> than dconf-editor is.  This tool and extensions won't be installed by
> default.
> 
> Rahul
> 

I need a Fedora philosophy clarification of the above statements.

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.

Now to philosophy. I assume Fedora is the first party, Gnome is the
second party and whoever did gnome-tweak-tool is the third.

I would assume that Fedora would want the best interactive experience
for the user. gnome-tweak-tool makes it easy for the user to configure
the gnome3 experience for the user. The other interfaces do not. For
example the focus window on  mouse configuration which is not addressed
by gnome-tweak-tool is hard to figure out, and the CLI configuration
commands recently posted on this list would be almost impossible to come
up with for the average user.

So if gnome-tweak-tool is useful (I first heard of it from your post)
why not include it in the distribution to make configuration of Gnome3
easier for the user?
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