Re: RFC: Tweaking tool for GNOME3

["Johannes Schmid" <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi!

> https://github.com/nzjrs/gnome-tweak-tool
>
> It requires a recent pygobject build has been tested on a jhbuilt shell,
> and Ubuntu Natty.
>
> I understand there is legitimate resistance to such a tool, as offering
> multiple customisation options could weaken the design and marketing
> message of the new shell. This is why I have not blogged nor posted this
> widely. On the other hand, such tools will inevitably appear to fill the
> power user niche so why not make the best of. I encourage the shell
> developers to take it as a compliment when people express interest in
> tweaking gnome-shell; it means they are using it and have not
> reflexively stayed with GNOME2 or moved elsewhere.
>
> So I am asking for feedback, both strategic and functional on the tool.
> It has a limited set of tweaks so far, but adding new ones is
> straightforward (see tweaks/tweak_*.py).

There is an "official" effort for writing such a tool so please contact
desktop-devel-list because people will be highly interested and there will
be not resistance. After all, this is nothing to ship by default but very
useful to power-users.

And technically, pygobject seems a good choice!

Thanks,
Johannes