Re: Ideas/Regressions - gconf/Registry

I am getting seriously tired of people saying that gconf/gconf-editor is
the same as the windows regigistry

Have any of these people used both - am sceptical

gconf has english descriptions for changes and nreg has not - this is
such afundamental difference that comparisons are urrelavent





On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 14:05, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:05:32AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > >...and putting somewhat frequently needed functionality in some tab
> > >Ok, this can be somewhat of a problem since there is no visual
> > >indication for how javascript affects the looks of the web pages.  But
> > >has anyone really complained about that?  It's a mistake you usually
> > >make only once, and even that only if you go turning knobs you know
> > >nothing about.
> > 
> > If you make the mistake one time, as I already said, you are very probably
> > not going to get back your browser to previous status (assuming you dont
> > know what js is).
> > Also, I have no doubts we will never seen complaints about this because
> > users that send mail to mailing lists and to bugzilla does know what is
> > javascript. But it's not a good reason to ignore the problem.
> 
> What about a gconf-editor entry to enable advanced menus, so the stupid
> (err, not very computer savy) users would never ever see these items,
> while the rest of us would not be robbed of the functionality ?
> 
> I still think the gconf-editor is a ugly way to do prefs, but then gnome
> copied this on the windows registry, so i guess there we have to adapt
> to it. In particular, if you enter gconf-editor, which is still somewhat
> buggy at times, to change some option of galeon, you could as well
> change a lot of stuff by chance that have nothing at all to do with
> galeon, and you can screw, not only galeon, but your whole gnome
> desktop.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> 
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