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Isn't this really a weakness of this system's abstraction? This appearance decision is just a skin layer. Rather than thrust it upon people, it could just be
by Xurinos 17y ago
Isn't this really a weakness of this system's abstraction? This appearance decision is just a skin layer. Rather than thrust it upon people, it could just be the default skin/view/appearance/theme, and there would be ways for contributors to submit additional themes that smoothly plug into the system. Don't like the buttons on the left? Use this other theme instead, which is mostly the same but with this exception.
- barrkel 17y agoYes, there's no problem that can't be solved with another layer of indirection, etc. But making things configurable has its own costs, which are not trivial.
- jmillikin 17y agoIt's a weakness in the user interface. The preference to control button placement isn't exposed in the Appearance applet, so the only way to change it is to set a gconf preference.