Make Ubuntu Tweak as Power Users' Standard Tool

[Paul Hoell]

2011/5/22 TualatriX <tualatrix at gmail.com>

> Great! Sounds like a Zeitgeist (timeline) based backup/restore tool.
>
> As it is a default component since Natty, it will be easy to use it in
> Ubuntu Tweak. I will have a try.
>

That's what i thought.
Like i mentioned in another thread here, i was also thinking about using
bazaar as the backend for for these states. Because most of the settings are
just dconf XML files it would be quite doable to just version every change
in the background. Some of these then get pushed to Zeitgeist to enable the
"casual" power user to easily revert parts of the config or the whole set.
An "advanced" power user could, in addition, use the full power of bazaar to
revert single steps, make a patch of a set of configs, push them to
Launchpad and merge on another PC. It would then be possible to make a
personal PPA to store most of the GUI config in and just grab it on the next
install. Even with branches for different systems/use-cases.

I know this might seem overly complicated, but if we use these powerful
existing tools for saving the settings, we can easily provide a simple
save/revert system an amazing playground for more advanced users. And the
best is: no one not interested, even has to know it ;)

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