I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
But don’t Gnome and XFCE have CLI commands that can get and set their config values?
Maybe, but I’m not setting the option using the CLI commands. Using a separate command for every option isn’t really easy to keep updated or modify.