[PLUG] Ubuntu Power Users: new community

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I've been following the lightning speed developments of a new Ubuntu 
community that will be of interest to many folks on this list.  The 
quick version is that it's for Ubuntu "Power Users" who would like to 
easily tweak Ubuntu/Gnome/Unity more than is allowed by the too-basic 
defaults.

Time-line/genesis:

1) 
http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/18/creating-an-ubuntu-power-user-community/

2) http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/19/building-the-kitchen-sink/

--> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-power-users

Also note that the author of"Ubuntu Tweak" has joined the list and will 
be working to have that tool (finally) included in the stock repos and 
likely will implement at least some suggestions from the community.
--> 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-power-users/2011-May/000144.html


One of the many good ideas proposed so far is to provide config/tweak 
"undo" and "export" functions, possibly via some kind of revision 
control on the files.  I think that's awesome.

KDE, XFCE and other environments have been mentioned, but since they are 
all much more tweakable than Gnome/Unity by default, there is less need 
for this.  This makes sense so me personally.  I find KDE overwhelming 
and prefer the simplicity (some may say blandness) of Gnome.  But at the 
same time, there are some things I want to tweak on Gnome that are not 
exposed in either the GUI or (sometimes) the docs.


Enjoy,
JP
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