A while ago there was a meme at Planet GNOME about the wishes for GNOME 3. Although I don’t have any influence on this, I do also have things I’d like to see in the next major release of my favourite desktop environment. But there is one thing that bugs me the most: the tons of configuration tools. This is not only GNOME’s fault — Ubuntu also adds its share — but it’s something that could and should be improved. Currently there is a tool for every tiny thing on your system.

For example: I’m using Compiz-Fusion, Emerald and AWN. Because of this I’ve got a list of configuration utilities for appearance and graphics:

* Awn manager
* CompizConfig Settings Manager
* Screensaver
* Screenresolution
* gnome-appearance-properties
* GDM theme

The special effects tab of the gnome-appearance-properties program is useless now because I’m using custom settings.

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