[Fwd: Re: COG and gTweakui]
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> From: Mads Villadsen <maxximum@krakoa.dk>
> To: Jerome Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>
> Subject: Re: COG and gTweakui
> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 21:17:23 +0200
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 01:22 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > Did you already consider to merge your work and effort on COG with
> > gTweakui[1]?
>
> I considered it when I saw the first release of gTweakUI (which was
> after I had made several releases of COG), but ultimately the conclusion
> was that the two programs have very different purposes.
>
> COG is meant as a "crack-pipe" type program - ie. not too focused on
> the "beginner" users (it's not really fair to call them that, but I hope
> you know what I mean. It is mainly a program to edit a lot of hidden
> settings from a single place in a (hopefully) simple way. It was never
> intended to go into GNOME proper.
>
> gTweakUI on the other hand seems to be focused on providing nice, small
> capplets (like the ones that already come with GNOME) to give the
> impressions that these settings are a natural part of GNOME.
>
> So I doubt that there will be a merger, but cooperation is definitely an
> option.
>
> > Though I still consider COG greater, I would prefer nobody
> > wastes any time doing things already done elsewhere.
>
> Honestly, it doesn't take that much work. GNOME is great that way. Most
> of the settings are simply GConf values that get changed, and there is a
> very easy to use API for that.
>
> The most difficult thing I have made is that part for selecting theme
> colors, since that involves the .gtkrc-2.0 file, which isn't quite as
> nice as GConf.
>
> Thank you for your interest in COG.
--
Jérôme Warnier
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