Bug#528987: gconf-editor: I suggest a wording change in the description, please.

[s. keeling]

Package: gconf-editor
Version: 2.22.0-1
Severity: minor

>From "aptitude show gconf-editor":

   This is not the recommended way of setting desktop 
   preferences, ...

"That's not very helpful," is the upshot of this report.  :-)

   ... but it might be useful when the proper 
   configuration utility for some software 
   provides no way of changing some option.

I think it would be useful to change "This is not" to $BLAH where BLAH ==
"$(whatever_IS_the recommended_way) is".  Eg.:

   Your preferred Desktop Manager is the recommended way of setting
   desktop preferences, but this might be useful when the proper
   configuration utility for some software provides no way of
   changing some option.

I'm assuming here that that's what you meant?

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Hi.  This is a laptop.  I've a few others running here, but it's my 
primary machine.  

I'm one of those so-called corner-cases in that I don't use 
Gnome/KDE.  I install a minimal base, then augment with fluxbox 
and run startx from CLI.  Meaning, I don't have what you may 
assume to be, "the recommended way of setting desktop preferences," 
installed.  So, I go looking in the packaging system for a way to 
control Gnome apps, find gconf-editor, and your description tells 
me not to use it, and offers no simple alternative.  Hence, the above
alternative.

I hate the way modern X stuff (Gnome, KDE, ...) essentially ignore 
X resources.  However, I'm willing to learn how the new way works 
for the few apps of that ilk I use, as long as I don't need to suffer
Gnome/KDE.

Thanks for all your efforts.  Have fun.  I think Lenny's teriffic!  :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash