The Beryl project has won a lot of press time so far with its impressive tricks -- even more than its slower-evolving daddy, Compiz. There are several lose ends to Beryl's core engine and incompatibilities with existing applications or technologies. However, something that really put off a lot of people when they try Beryl is its dreadful settings manager.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Only for keyboard shortcuts. There needs to be a way to search for an actual option as well, for example... what if I want to change the size of thumbnails? Hrm... can't seem to find it... ah, finally, there it is. Or... even worse, when there are two conflicting settings in different modules, it would be nice to be able to quickly find the other to turn it off.
Member since:2005-07-02
There needs to be a way to search for an actual option as well,
You know, if you know how to code, I'm sure the Beryl projects is still taking contributors.
for example... what if I want to change the size of thumbnails? Hrm... can't seem to find it... ah, finally, there it is.
You're exaggerating a bit - it's not that hard to find the options in the current settings manager. Adding a search function here is overkill, in my view (considering the work involved).
Or... even worse, when there are two conflicting settings in different modules, it would be nice to be able to quickly find the other to turn it off.
Beryl won't allow you to turn on two conflicting plugins. You'll be presented with a choice on which one you want to use, but you won't be able to use both.
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2006-01-16
It's located under the "General Options" tab.