Editing config files nowadays has become a rare occasion but still is necessary sometimes. So with the upcoming feisty release I wonder how many times do you still _have_ to edit config files?
To start off, Whenever your kernel gets updated a new item will be added to your boot menu, which is annoying as it soon becomes cluttered (it already is with the safe mode and memtest which I never use). But where's the GUI to remove the items from your grub menu? There isn't. You will still need to edit menu.lst, although it is a very well commented file, try to explain it to a newbie. What if you accidentally edit it wrong? Your PC won't boot.
Or what if I am behind a router with DHCP but I want to set my DNS servers manually. I will have to edit /etc/dhclient3/dhclient.conf (something like that).
So here are the first two:
- /boot/grub/menu.lst desperately needs a GUI.
- The networking config GUI could be improved.
- /etc/security
- any more?
I heard xorg.conf is going to disppear, but that might still take a while.
Note that I'm not particularly against config files, I just think if ubuntu aims to be "for human beings" common tasks should be doable by GUI only.
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