Re: Re: decline :(

Janek Kozicki wrote:
> beartooth said:     (by the date of Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:30:26 -0400)

[snips]

>>Hmmm.... Never thought of that; sounds well worth a try. But as one who
>>has only today managed to come back to Galeon, I don't see how. It doesn't
>>appear under Tabs nor Edit > Preferences ....  :-(
> 
> 
> this is a major problem with galeon. Nothing is in edit->preferences. If
> you want to tweak galeon, you can try with gtweakui, or you can type
> from command line some wizardry commands like:
> 
> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_tearoff true
> 
> developers seem to like the idea of making galeon very difficult to
> configure. But despite I'm on this mailing list few months, and I'm a
> fervent user of galeon for 4 years, I still don't understand why they
> like it that way.
> 

It's easy to get lost in a configuration panel with hundreds of settings
(KDE Control Center comes to mind...) That's why only the essential
settings are present in the user interface. The unessential one are
accessible with gconf-editor or other third-party tools. There are some
associated descriptions included to help you out.

AFAIK, Gconf it's a GNOME thing. No need to revive the GConf flamebaits
on a Galeon list. It does have some interesting uses though. E.g. I'm
using a shell script that changes the proxy setting using the parameters
given at runtime. It makes life easier for me, moreso then the
SwitchProxy extension for Firefox. Here's how it works:

#!/bin/sh
gconftool-2 --set /system/http_proxy/host --type string "$1"
gconftool-2 --set /system/http_proxy/port --type integer "$2"
gconftool-2 --set /system/proxy/ftp_host --type string "$1"
gconftool-2 --set /system/proxy/ftp_port --type integer "$2"
gconftool-2 --set /system/proxy/secure_host --type string "$1"
gconftool-2 --set /system/proxy/secure_host --type integer "$2"

Not to mention the fact that you don't have to restart Galeon or other
GNOME apps for the setting to become effective :)

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