Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

[Jan Claeys <lists janc be>]

On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:26 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote:
> > 8c. GNOME Tweaks shouldn't exist.
>
> Slight agree, with a caveat. The thing I appreciate about GNOME is
> that I don't have to go through a lot of settings to find what I'm
> looking for. The mental load of using GNOME Settings is very low, and
> I like that.
>
> GNOME Tweaks is the opposite world. I don't need 95% of the settings
> in GNOME Tweaks. But 5% of the settings are important to me. The
> problem is: Those 5% are different for everyone. I would love it if
> my 5% were moved from Tweaks to Settings, but that might just clutter
> the Settings app for some other people.
>
> So from a user perspective: Yes, it's annoying that some settings are
> in GNOME Tweaks, and there is no way to know which settings are where
> short of simply remembering. But from a design perspective, I can
> appreciate that GNOME Settings is as clutter-free as possible.

Maybe "hidden" settings that have been changed (using Gnome Tweaks or
some other method) should show up in Gnome Settings after that.


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Jan Claeys

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