The Ubuntu community has contributed 13963 ideas, 66846 comments, 1291785 votes
Idea
#7931: Merge configuration tools
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Written by qense the 1 May 08 at 13:19.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
There are a lot of configuration tools. I think this can confuse new users, because they don't know where to look. What I suggest is to merge all setting of the same kind(controls, screen, etc) and provide an unlock button for settings that require more rights. This will make configuration a lot easier and faster, since everything will be in one place.
(Never forget the power of tabs!)
(By the way, idea #130 looks a bit like a duplicate, it's older, but less advanced.)
EDIT: To make things clear: I meant GNOME.
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madjr wrote on the 1 May 08 at 21:02
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agree, this why i like ubuntu-tweak so much
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ottk3 wrote on the 1 May 08 at 23:34
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/signed
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tgape wrote on the 2 May 08 at 02:23
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Ah, yes, tabs. Tabs are amazing.
http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/tabs.htm
I think the key point is that it should be intuitive to navigate to where to set any particular option, especially in the GUI. It would be nice if there was a command-line (possibly curses based) utility that mirrored the GUI setup, but most of us command-line types can fend for ourselves. Worse comes to worse, we can patch /proc/kmem by hand (yeah, I know, kmem bit the dust long ago. But I can dream!)
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mlhuzzy wrote on the 2 May 08 at 09:31
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This sounds like a great idea.....I'm very new to Ubuntu but think it is brilliant. Successfully installed and using on my Toughbook - it really does do what it says on the tin :)
The only problem I have is knowing which applications to use - there seem to be loads of apps that do the same or similar jobs....a list of the most commonly used/standard apps would be very useful.
Thanks Ubuntu for dragging me away from a Windows OS :)
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topyli wrote on the 5 May 08 at 22:58
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GNOME used to have a central place for all configuration. It was broken down to small separate tools for a reason: it is much easier to do one thing than many things. We don't need to go back to what KDE and Windows do.
Voting down :(
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RyanPrior wrote on the 6 May 08 at 00:50
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Also voting down for the same reasons as topyli. Configuration GUIs that do a small set of jobs well are inherently better than big GUIs that try to do it all.
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