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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Discussion culture Post 303040772 by stomp on Wednesday 6th of November 2019 01:07:40 PM

11-06-2019

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I want to start a small thread about discussion culture. From the past experience in different fora, I have little hope that any will come out of it. But I'll try it anyway, hoping to contributing to an improvement on the topic.

I do not want to discuss a specific technical question, but only the underlying mindsets and motives.

My personal basic philosophy is that every different person is like the word says: different. Different life experience, different opinions, different priority in values and needs, ... And this is a very good thing. Every different being contributes his life experience, his unique point of view into a discussion. Having said that, for me it's fundamental that there is - most of the time - no such thing that is right meaning all other points of view are wrong.

In fora I regularly notice there are things where there is a broader consent of opinons. That's ok. What I do not appreciate, that someone or some group claims this or that opinion is the only right one.

I'll try my best, to not do that myself, but I fail here sometimes to even notice I done it. So a - for me - successful way of communicating is when there is a place for every ones opinion. And to listen or reading without response is not the same as agreeing. It's just acknowledging having heard the others perspective as insight to his personal point of view.

The reason I write this, is that I just got a comment here about a thing that is really right and all the discussions perceived as fight for who's right.

What do you think?

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gconf-editor

gconf-editor(1)                                                    User Commands                                                   gconf-editor(1)

NAME

       gconf-editor - view and edit personal desktop configuration preferences

SYNOPSIS

       gconf-editor

DESCRIPTION

       The  GConf  Editor  application enables you to view and edit all of your current personal desktop preferences. The GConf Editor window pro-
       vides a tree view to navigate through the hierarchy of preferences, an edit pane to make changes to individual preferences, and a  descrip-
       tion pane to highlight the documentation associated with the currently selected preference.

OPTIONS

       None.

OPERANDS

       None.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching GConf Editor

       example% gconf-editor

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        Application exited successfully

       >0       Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gconf-editor   Executable for GConf Editor.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |                             |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability          |                             |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop System Administration Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10                                                          1 Oct 2003                                                     gconf-editor(1)