[Mageia-discuss] Gnome3 on Mageia 1

Moritz Wilhelmy ml+mageia at wzff.de
Tue Jun 7 11:22:18 CEST 2011


On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:33:42 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> My personal killer of Gnome3 is the switch from normal editable
> configuration files to a kind of registry, to be edited with a special
> editor. This is a no-go. Normal text files for configuration is one of
> the common basics of Linux (and most *nix based systems). Each rescue
> system, be it as small as possible comes with a  text editor (I've
> never seen any system without vi)

Vanilla ubuntu ships nano and ed, but without vi as far as I remember…

Glad someone else thinks text based configuration is a big plus. I
thought we were extinct.


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