On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 06:02 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
"other settings"? It might have been a longstanding complaint, but
not
one that's happened recently, or was ever very loud. If there are
things
to do in the background settings, they are probably more on fixing
presentation
bugs in gnome-shell for particular types of background (say, being
more
"magic" when setting up a panorama, a portrait photo or a small
pattern
as a background)
To be clear: I would prefer our background/wallpaper panel to look more
like Ubuntu's.
Bringing back the old fonts panel is out of the question. There are
too
many variables, they make absolutely no sense to most users
(seriously, do
Windows, OSX or mobile platforms allow you to select the direction of
anti-
aliasing?).
We don't have to bring everything back, and we don't have to expose the
preferences exactly as Tweak Tool does. But we could offer a setting
like "crisp" or "sharp" ("too narrow" or
"unantialiased" to detractors)
vs. "smooth" ("blurry" to detractors), for example. If we could find
default settings that work for everyone, then we wouldn't need
settings, but clearly we can't.