Re: Appearance properties

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 12:08 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Le mardi 10 novembre 2009 à 10:56 +0000, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 11:28 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > > Le mardi 10 novembre 2009 à 10:19 +0000, Thomas Wood a écrit :
> > > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:18 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > > > > So if you agree/disagree with those changes, please tell your opinion!
> > > > > I would like to know if I'm the only one to be worried. 
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I'll repeat what I said on the bug:
> > > > 
> > > > I agree with McCann, if someone wants to tweak their settings in such a
> > > > way, then it should be done through an appropriate "tweaks" application.
> > > > The interface tab does not contain options that are of interest to the
> > > > majority of users.
> > > 
> > > Can you please tell me what's gnome-appearance-properties if it is not
> > > to tweak the appearance of the GNOME desktop?
> > > 
> > > The fact that those options are useless for the majority of users is
> > > highly debatable and should definitely not depend on you+McCann alone. I
> > > would like wider acceptance before.
> > > 
> > > I definitely give a -1, but if I'm alone then ignore me ;)
> > 
> > You're confusing this place for a democracy :)
> > 
> > We might as well enable Bugzilla voting otherwise.
> > 
> > The reasons behind the move have been documented, and explanations given
> > on how to get the icons back.
> 
> Actually I started this thread because starting from today, GNOME does
> not have any way to get icons back anymore. gconf-editor is not
> considered a "tweak application" ;-)

That's because when we mentioned the "tweak application" in the past, we
postponed decisions until somebody wrote that elusive application.
Nobody did. So we remove the functionality, and if you care enough,
you'll write that tweak application.

See this on how you could implement it:
http://fagonfoss.com/blog/?p=414

Cheers