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Bug 658417 - gnome-control-center is missing look and feel settings (fonts, hinting, dpi)
gnome-control-center is missing look and feel settings (fonts, hinting, dpi)
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-06 23:59 UTC by rockorequin
Modified: 2011-10-23 15:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description rockorequin 2011-09-06 23:59:24 UTC 
Gnome3's 'Appearance' setting only allows you to change the wallpaper and UI theme.

This is a significant regression from Gnome2 where it also allowed you to change the desktop fonts, rendering (hinting etc), dots per inch and other theme settings like the icon set to use.

I'm using gnome-control-center v1:3.1.91-0ubuntu3 (Ubuntu 11.10).
Comment 1 Rodrigo Moya 2011-09-07 09:01:26 UTC 
The theme selection is just an Ubuntu patch, it's not upstream, just for the record
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-07 09:31:21 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Gnome3's 'Appearance' setting only allows you to change the wallpaper and UI
> theme.

There's no "Appearance" panel in GNOME 3.

> This is a significant regression from Gnome2 where it also allowed you to
> change the desktop fonts, rendering (hinting etc), dots per inch and other
> theme settings like the icon set to use.
> 
> I'm using gnome-control-center v1:3.1.91-0ubuntu3 (Ubuntu 11.10).

Not being able to change the fonts used or the font rendering tweaks or the desktop theme are part of the design.
Comment 3 rockorequin 2011-09-07 09:36:26 UTC 
Strange design. What's the thinking behind it?
Comment 4 Matt Sturgeon 2011-10-23 15:21:05 UTC 
I would argue it is a bug in the design, I have heard no praise for Gnome 3 dropping the options to choose the default icon set, in fact all I have heard is outrage and confusion.
Comment 5 Matt Sturgeon 2011-10-23 15:22:50 UTC 
My apologies, The launchpad bug report this bug report was linked to from also covered icon theme.