On 2016-02-02 12:58 +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

> > If you have the dedication to GUI and the resources of a global
> > mega-corporation it is possible to make a similar GUI actually respect
> > the under-lying settings ... but it is incredibly hard work, way
> > beyond almost any organisation. OSX did achieve this
>
> Not at all, actually. It just means the front-end code has to work
> directly with the backend config files

But then the GUI code has to grok all the bazillions of config file
formats out there, and perhaps worse, hardcode the knowledge which
packages use which formats.

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