The Gnome-Tweak-Tool has evolved into an almost essential component to the Gnome-Desktop for many of us users, and it is my belief that it be made a official component to the gnome desktop environment. I do not know if this has been debated before, but I will trying to lay down my perceived pros and cons.

Gnome3 has not been known for having abundant amount of settings and tweaks, and has received much flack from the community in this regard; however, the Gnome-Tweak tool has brought back many of the appearance settings options from Gnome2 and more. The problem is that it is not viewed as integrated into the Gnome desktop, and is still perceived as 3rd party. This has lead many people, including myself, to use it as a necessary application, but still be left with a weird feeling for why we are having to turn to a '3rd party' application to change basic functionality.

I believe it is time for the Gnome-Tweak tool to be included as a main component to the Gnome desktop environment, the first step of which is being included as selectable icon in the gnome-control-center.

As it is the "motherload" of system settings so-to-speak, I believe it deserves a rightful place along with all of the other system settings. Other Linux distribution (Arch, Fedora, openSuse) have even renamed it "Advanced Settings", as to make it seem "official" rather than the name "Gnome Tweak".

Now, some of the concerns I could see being that it contains some 'dangerous' settings, that a novice user could stumble into and potentially break things with. This could be solved by a warning message that pops up when they first enter the application, or even be hidden by default unless a toggle is flipped on elsewhere, thus ensuring end-user compliance.



Now, at the end of all of this, some of you may be asking why this is an important thing to even do, considering you can easily just launch the application like normal, and it all comes down to the one simple idea of "perceived coherence". As long as users feel that they need a 3rd party tool to change what were 'basic' options in the previous rendition of Gnome, they will feel that the Gnome developers are neglecting their needs, and 'some-other-guy' came to their rescue with the tool...

Anyway, these are my viewpoints on the issue, and I would love to have a discourse over this. And again, sorry if this is a topic that has been beat to death, I searched but did not find this topic discussed elsewhere.