Hi,

Since you forwarded my mail to the experts list:

This is my little "defending wizards" speech that I always keep for moments 
like this.

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 19:46, stanly klyuhin wrote:
> hi,
>
> forget about wizards... the only thing they can do is to completely duck up
> your carefully-written-by-hand config files ;)

What I don't like about config files is, that I 
a) don't find them if I don't know they are there, or as in this case have to 
create them by hand first.
b) I don't know how dependant they are on each other
c) the options that are allowed or not - in short what you can do with it and 
what not - is not clear. It is text - I can put into it the text of one of 
Terry Pratchets books and hope Rincewind the wizard comes hopping out as my 
new office helper. 

What I do like about them is, that they are completely open and democratically 
changable by anybody and any program (with enough rights) - no registry shit, 
no encrytion, plain (text) and honest.

But the problem about those config files shows in this example, I now know how 
to change the fonts, and I know how to change the theme. But that is all I 
have learned in these two mails.

That's why I dig webmin, for the simple tasks that I want done it is perfect. 
And all it really does, is change the democratic text files...

> first look at this line in my example ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
> include "/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
> and now do:
> $ find /usr/share/themes -name gtk-2.0
>
> so? do you still need some wizard or configurator? ;)

No, actually your first tip was all I really needed (bigger fonts) to have KDE 
as desktop and not loosing my eyesight. The theme was just for fun. So would 
be the rest I could do with it.

You can have one of my Terry Pratchet books as a thank-you, I just finished 
it. (That's maybe why I am in a bit of a strange mood and dare to write to 
the expert list, but I am honestly grateful for this tip)

good night, everybody

b.

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