PowerUserTool
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Intro
The main idea is to build a multi purpose tool where the power users can find any option to tweak and fine tune their system. If you want to know more, the following links try to resume the history of this idea:
"Building The Kitchen Sink" Jono's blogpost
Ubuntu Tweak Author Join the team
General Principles
The Tool must be a safe tool ("Building Safety Into Our Work")
- The Tool must be able to bring the users to previous/safe configuration when something goes wrong
General Features
Plugability
- The tool will allow different Plugins making it usable for different needs and different ubuntu flavours.
Safety
- Undo last change
- When possible apply the changes and ask the user if keeping it or not. (just like X when changing resolution)
- Restore to previous configuration (or to a specific date)
- Restore to default settings (making a backup at the first run)
Sections
Any section can be seen as a stand-alone plugin. Anyway in this page we'll focus on features and not in the software architecture
Unity
- Launcher/Dash background Color and Alpha
- Icon size
- ...
GNOME
Compiz
KDE
Source center
Having the Ubuntu Tweak "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.