Dependence on Gnome's System Menu

[Rocco Stanzione]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 12:33, George Farris wrote:
> > I'm objecting here to our habit of crippling or even removing more
> > traditional configuration and administration tools in favor of a very
> > specific interface. I'm all for Gnome having such wonderful tools, but
> > similar tools have existed without Gnome for a long time, and it
> > frustrates me to see them abandoned with the apparent assumption that all
> > Ubuntu users are Gnome users.

> Are you saying here that Ubuntu shouldn't try an offer a consistent
> interface to their users?  Being in, for example, a corporate or home
> environment, I want a consistent and easy to use tool for performing
> these operations and that is what I get with Ubuntu.  It's easy to talk
> other users through, looks good and fits in with the rest of the
> desktop.  IMHO this is the right way to do this, much the same as
> Windows and Mac.  I'm not talking (KXE)ubuntu here just Ubuntu.
>
> You are of course free to install other tools to perform these
> management functions.  The CUPS web interface is not fully functional
> out of the box I believe due to that fact that Ubuntu doesn't use the
> root account per say.  Not really sure as I don't use it.

I tried really hard to make it clear that it's great that Gnome should have 
all these tools.  It makes for a nice experience for Gnome users, who 
probably constitute a majority of Ubuntu users.  What I'm complaining about 
is the habit of blowing off other, more traditional interfaces for the same 
task just because the Gnome interface exists.