Gconf-editor

Gconf-editor is a free Logiciel of the graphic Environnement GNOME.

The Gconf-editor gives to users the capacity to reach the arrangements stored in the Database XML of configuration of GConf. It is employed mainly by Développeur S to correct the applications, or by users informed to publish the hidden and complex data. It recovers the data of GConf and presents them in an interface similar to Regedit of Microsoft.

Discusses

The Gconf-editor is an application discussed in the community of GNOME.

Some users of GNOME criticized it like excuses for too much simplifying the user interface and the design for lowest common denominator. Preferences like: to change the sorting of the icons of office, the order of the buttons of the window, or to remove the changes of nautilus in GNOME 2.6, which are not available with a graphic user interface (GUI) in the menus of the preferences, but only in Gconf-editor. The team of Développeur S of GNOME answers that the majority of the users find a good number of options and choices muddling and difficult to learn, and that the alleged informed users have little difficulty of finding the options by using Gconf-editor in particular.

Because of the polemic, other tools for gconf appeared, like Gconfpref by MandrakeSoft. There are also rubber patches for the popular applications, which add options hidden in the preferences of these applications, avoiding the need for gconf-editor.

See too

Internal bond

GConf

External bonds

Site of GConf
GNOME Usability Project
Human GNOME Interfaces Guidelines

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