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Introducing Refine, an app to tweak advanced and experimental settings in GNOME (fosstodon.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't that just dconf?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. But as a GUI tool, it's nice that it is available as a flatpak for atomic distro users and also includes experimental options for Gnome which are not shown in Gnome Tweaks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://flathub.org/apps/ca.desrt.dconf-editor

Not to say you can't use the new tool but dconf exists and is maintained.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These apps have different niches. Refine and Gnome Tweaks aim to expose things that are not in Gnome Settings but users would commonly want to change. Meanwhile dconf editor exposes everything, most things are things that you wouldn't want to change; it's great for discovering new things though, I made great use of it when creating my script to configure gnome to my liking.