A clarification of Fedora philosophy.

[Alexander Volovics]

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 installed.. gsettings wants schema to be named.
> gconf-editor has schema displayed . dconf-editor does not.
 
> In gconf-editor Under desktop->gnome there are 13 items for
> configuration. In dconf-editor in the same place there are only two
> which are limited in the parameters one can set. 
 
> 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.
 
> What am I missing?

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'. 

Have a look at:
http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/03/customizing-the-gnome-3-shell.html

It contains some information on using gsettings to change settings.
Maybe it will be of use to you.

Alexander