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gnome-tweak-tool package

  1. Bug #1270572
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1270572

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 14.04 should have gnome-tweak-tool installed by default because of many settings that are missed gnome-control-center

My opinion on this topic is this:

Graphical interfaces shall be designed to let the user decide over the work he's being performing; and to minimize decisions about technical decisions, about how his computer shall behave.

The reason for this is it saves greats amounts of time; while this deep customizability is mainly not intended for making software more flexible, but just pass the user the responsibility of fixing by hand design failures in software and hardware.

On the other hand, I think what meritocracy means is misunderstood by some. Meritocracy is about letting who contributed more to a project decide which scope represents better each individual one from the team; not just only, as seen in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711426, saying "we disagree". So there's not feedback with what people needs at all!, although you choose not to follow; what means decisions are based only in how the project coordinator understands the world himself.

For simplifying:
- What people think they need is, most of the time, not exactly what they need.
- But what people don't like is never what they need.
- So what is needed is what is liked by both, developers and users.