Make Ubuntu Tweak as Power Users' Standard Tool

[Miguel Branco]

It's great to see the community work together, and even established programs
adapt to new needs.
Thank you for that, TualatriX.

I will reiterate what I said before, about some features I think a Ubuntu
Kitchen Sink should have.

Ability to run as a CLI program, with parameters such as: "-restoredefault",
"-restoredate XXX" and "-restorefile YYY"

Ability to backup/export some settings as a file (or write them manually) to
restore using the various plugins from the sink.

I'm one to do that with compizconfig-settings-manager and apt installs, so
it would be nice to have it for the entire system.
Think of it as a script of gconftool lines without the need to know where
the settings are or how the plugins apply them! :)

Thoughts?



On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:00, TualatriX <tualatrix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> It's really cool to meet you guys here! I'm the author of Ubuntu
> Tweak, from China.
>
> First thank Evan and Jono who invited me to this mailing list. It's
> very happy for me to be here. Since many of you recommend Ubuntu
> Tweak, Thanks everyone!
>
> Please let me give a short introduction about myself. I started
> writing Ubuntu Tweak in September 2007, when I was at university. The
> goal is simple: a tool to help people to make their Ubuntu life
> easier. This is my first application, I can't imagine I have wrote it
> for about 4 years! The blog of Ubuntu Tweak recorded every milestone
> I've made (http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/ )
>
> After years of development, Ubuntu Tweak is becoming more and more
> powerful and popular, it has a lot of users now. We had tried to get
> it into the official repository in the early days, but failed because
> of the untrusted PPAs.
>
> Now I'm developing the new 0.6 version with new looking and new
> features, what's important, it will have a flexible plug-in system.
>
> The creation of Power Users Community and the idea of "Ubuntu Kitchen
> Sink" make me really exciting! I decided to adapt Ubuntu Tweak as a
> community product and get it into the official repository.
>
> To make it happen, I write a draft of things to be done:
>
> * Separate the "Source Center" (untrusted PPAs) into a standalone
> plug-in (or community extensions), which is not installed by default
> but user can always install it. So Ubuntu Tweak is possible to put
> into the official repository.
> * Design the APIs to provide a common backup/restore system, a
> consistent UI sets to build the configure interface, so everyone can
> use it to write safety plug-in.
> * Get help from this community, to make Ubuntu Tweak cover every
> possible part to configure.
>
> How about these plans?
>
> Feel free to give your ideas and suggestions. Let's make it happen!
>
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