Re: how/where to find Gnome Preferences Tool?

[Tony Houghton <h realh co uk>]

You can still change themes in Tweaks, in the Appearance section. I've never seen a theme that looks nicer than Adwaita though.

On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 17:23, Carl-Valentin Schmitt via gnome-list <gnome-list gnome org> wrote:

Hello Ken,

"changing themes" was a feature in earlier versions of Gnome.

I think in newer versions actually - "changing themes" has been left away.

Gnome is not like KDE.

;)

Greetz. Val.

ken via gnome-list <gnome-list gnome org> schrieb am Mo., 5. Apr. 2021, 17:52:

Carl,

Using preferences (Settings is what I think we're talking about) and gnome-tweaks is not at all difficult-- well, finding what needs to be changed is the most difficult, and knowing the correct terminology to run a search.  But I've used both of those apps to make a lot of changes already. 

What's much more difficult is making changes in gnome (or are they in Wayland?) which are no longer configurable using Settings or gnome tweaks... or perhaps not configurable at all in gnome.

On 4/4/21 3:19 PM, Carl-Valentin Schmitt via gnome-list wrote:

Hello Ken,

for how to use preferences in Gnome or how to use gnome-tweaks, you could explore forums

like

ubuntu.com or askubuntu.com

There are minimum differences, when you use Gnome in different distros.

This way gnome-tweaks works.

You only need to know the version

for searching in forums.

rpr // via gnome-list <gnome-list gnome org> schrieb am So., 4. Apr. 2021, 20:15:

Ken, that Desktop User Guide is very old (see the last modified times
of files in https://people.gnome.org/~bmsmith/) and it does not refer
to GNOME 3 desktop environment used in Fedora 33.

-- rpr.

On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 18:23, ken <mait newcultures com> wrote:
>
> Looking at and following the Desktop User Guide, I was trying to create a new theme (and do a few other things explained there).  I already have and have been using the tweak tool quite a bit, but what is explained in that userguide does not correspond at all to the what's in the tweak tool... iow, it doesn't seem to be the same app, the Preference Tool, mentioned in the userguide.
>
>
> On 4/4/21 6:44 AM, Carl-Valentin Schmitt wrote:
>
> I think Ken means the package
>
> gnome-tweak-tool
>
> You need to install this package
> before you can adjust Gnome.
>
> Greetz. Val.
>
> ken <mait newcultures com> schrieb am So., 4. Apr. 2021, 11:20:
>>
>> Though I've seen the Preferences Tool mentioned in several gnome docs
>> (including the userguide.pdf), I haven't been able to find it on my
>> system (Fedora 33) or in the repos so I can download and install it.
>> Does it still exist...? or is it perhaps included in a package by some
>> other name?
>>
>> tia.
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