Bug 708174 - [FutureFeature] Alacarte and gnome-tweak-tool should be on the live-cd
Summary: [FutureFeature] Alacarte and gnome-tweak-tool should be on the live-cd
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: alacarte
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-26 21:15 UTC by Rafael Louback Ferraz
Modified: 2012-08-07 18:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 18:24:05 UTC
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Description Rafael Louback Ferraz 2011-05-26 21:15:19 UTC
alacarte and gnome-tweak-tool should be included by default on the fedora live cd. Editing menus and tweaking a lot of things on gnome, like what my laptop should do when I close it, should be more easier.

After all, Free Software should give power to the user to do what he wants with the software.

Another nice thing would be the option to edit menu entries directly, like all other OS do. Without the use of alacarte. It saves a lot of time.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-05-26 21:24:16 UTC
gnome-tweak-tool should *not* be an exposed user interface, not without drastic rewriting. It's an OK advanced user tool, but it's a horrible UI. How do you write coherent documentation as to whether a window titlebar doubleclick should shade, close, minimize, screenshot, or crash the app? How do you coherently explain to users what 'Rgba' is (or even the difference between Hinting and Antialiasing)

After all, if it was meant to be a generally changeable option for the end user, it would *already be in the base UI*.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2011-05-26 21:31:37 UTC
With respect to alacarte, it obviously doesn't serve a purpose in the default shell configuration; it may be useful for fallback mode.

Comment 3 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2011-05-26 23:17:54 UTC
gnome-tweak-tool couldn't be an advanced tab in some window of the gnome configuration? An advanced tab gives the user a warning that it isn't supposed to change something without knowing what they do.

What is the default menu editing instead alacarte?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2011-05-27 18:48:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> gnome-tweak-tool couldn't be an advanced tab in some window of the gnome
> configuration?

That would be an issue to discuss upstream in GNOME; it's not the sort of option we'd add in Fedora.

> What is the default menu editing instead alacarte?

The default shell doesn't use menus; it uses search & categories. As I understand it, alacarte should be able to edit the menus for fallback mode, but there's a bug in it at the moment.

Comment 5 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2011-05-27 19:26:09 UTC
Yeah.. this is lacking since gnome 2. Fedora dont have a voice on gnome decisions? Or I need to ask it directly on GNOME?

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2011-05-27 19:48:13 UTC
Changing what options are available for configuration in control-center is best handled in upstream GNOME. 

Moving this to alacarte as a bug against it not properly editing the fallback mode menus.

Comment 7 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2011-05-27 20:18:12 UTC
I agree with you

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