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We are not about to pull a Unity/Gnome 3 however and remove most all control from the user. Instead we are working on an option that will allow users to "lock" their configuration. When locked all change options will be removed from sight (and thusly out of mind). Meaning users that just want a default set look won't be reminded constantly of all the customizations they could be doing. ~Jeff
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That's answered that one I guess then
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Nice
![]() On MS Windows I always saved my icons and start menu items by backing them up weekly with Titan back up. Customized themes can be saved from the Windows settings. I never knew how they would get messed up, but they did. ![]() Anyway this ability is built in to Unity which makes enormous sense. I wonder if you can save a copy of the custom "profile" file and keep it on a USB drive that way it would be a snap in case something got messed up or if you have to reinstall your OS. Last edited by wdhpr; 05. Jun 2011 at 10:52 PM. |
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All the profiles you create are stored in their own folder in your ~/.e/e/config folder. You can easily back them up to a pen drive or other storage media.
Making a GUI tool for doing this is on an eventual TODO list. ~Jeff
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That would be great.
What I have been doing is making weekly images to restore my system. Fortunately with Linux I can keep it to around 4GB. To be honest I'm not quite sure how to save just my profile on Ubuntu. But what your suggesting with your GUI tool looks to be breaking new ground. Cheers |
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I remember old DOS days (thats dating myself) But I remembered and used over a dozen line item commands and knew where the files were placed and everything seemed simple enough. Then came Windows 3.0 and with it came the GUI. I recall how everybody hated windows at first but slowly the grumbling subsided and most just excepted the change and with it most of those line commands just faded away.
My first experience with Linux required very little knowledge of the line command maybe a apt-get this and sudo that. The results are a growing number of users with very little knowledge of the command line other than copying and pasting somethingh to the terminal and pressing enter. The lesson in this is that it will be very hard for people to reverse engineer their knowledge when all they have ever used are GUIs. I truly believe Linux is much more powerful using various line commands to complement the GUI. It would be great to see some kind of user interfaced tutorial that walks people through commonly used line commands. I have studied a couple of very good lessons which walked me through the basics but are quickly forgotten due to lack of use. |
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Managed to mess up my sound yesterday which isn't surprising because I have been abusing the system somewhat to see if it would break
![]() The thing that impressed me this (second) time around was how quickly Bodhi can be set up, even allowing for the fact that much of the stuff you still have to get either from their online "click and install" or Synaptic. This time of course I didn't need so much stuff as before having tried and eliminated several of the options available for each category. I opted for Chromium to run alongside the pre-installed Midori, Thunderbird, Deluge, VLC, K3B, Unetbootin, LibreOffice, Mirage and Pinta from the online store. I also got the theme pack from here and the Faenza icon set. I then loaded Firestarter, lm-sensors, GkrellM, Xpad and a few games using Synaptic. Having copied some stuff back over from my external drive, tweaked the theme and loaded a few extra modules, in no time I was back up and running from where I left off. I really do like the simplicity of Bodhi plus how it looks great with so little effort. Changing the base theme also co-ordinates changes for your gadgets so you end up with a complete new look in just three clicks.
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