[Sugar-devel] Location of Saved XO Settings

[Eduardo H. Silva]

yep, once again I am wrong :) sensible options should be added to the
control-panel. Perhaps it could exist as a separate activity, a
power-user tool like the Terminal, Analize and Log activities are.


Eduardo

2009/2/23 Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>:
> On 2/23/09, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This gconf-editor tool should be accessible somewhere in Sugar (the
>> control panel?): remember, low floor, high ceiling.
>>
>
> The main concern with making these keys easilly accessible are
> twofold: it discourages from implementing the settings in a
> user-friendly panel applet (see firefox's about:config or the windows
> registry) and secondly it makes it simpler for a child to hose their
> setup. Gconf-edit is not meant to be a user-facing tool, but a last
> resort when normal configuration tools provided by an app are
> insufficent.
>
> For this reason, I think adding the editor to the control panel would
> be a mistake.
>>
>
>
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