Re: Make default

[Hylke Bons <hylkebons gmail com>]

I fully agree with Thomas' arguments. Also, GNOME uses "instant" apply
for most of it's preferences (except where they could be disruptive
like Screen Resolution). This is a very clear pattern. Instead, we can
make sabayon a whole lot better.

Hylke

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> We had a discussion about this at the usability hackfest.
>
> I mainly use a single-user setup so I don't think I understand the
> necessity to tweak system defaults, such as the login screen background.
> I am not aware of how other systems such as Windows or OS X deals with
> these use cases.
>
> I think most of the use cases stated are only interesting to multi-user
> systems. How does setting "system-defaults" overlap with a project such
> as Sabayon¹?
>
> Jon or Bastien may be able to remember more about the discussion we had
> at the hackfest.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
>
> ¹ http://live.gnome.org/Sabayon/
>
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