Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:42:41 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Exporting Config FIles Message-ID: <1080193361.87777.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <40627D6A.10609@cs.uiowa.edu> References: <406222D7.1020702@cs.uiowa.edu> <40627D6A.10609@cs.uiowa.edu>
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--=-0nmr0011Ndgn+RmsPbpZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 01:34, Jason Dusek wrote: > Hi Everyone, >=20 > Piotr Smyrak wrote to me directly with a simple suggestion - I include=20 > his comments below along with my reply. >=20 > Piotr Smyrak wrote: >=20 > >Hi, > > > >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:07:51 -0600, Jason Dusek > ><jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu> wrote: > > > > =20 > > > >>I need to setup a nifty GNOME configuration for several users, > >>with a large number of launchers and similar conveniences.=20 > >>However, most of the users need basically the same stuff - so what > >>I should do is set it up once for one of them, and then export it. > >> How do I do that? > >> =20 > >> > > > >Skeletons? > > > > =20 > > > If you grep your gnome config files for your name, you'll find that your=20 > own directory structure is hard coded into them. So, simply copying=20 > your stuff into /usr/shar/skel is not a good idea - because if one user=20 > changes a certain configuration option, it could change that feature for=20 > /all/ the users. There needs to be some kind of 'transfer to so and so'=20 > option. I was wondering if any work had been done on this, or if anyone=20 > had a workaround. Why not just modify the system defaults so that each user's default desktop has all the launchers setup the way you want? Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-0nmr0011Ndgn+RmsPbpZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAYnFRb2iPiv4Uz4cRAiz9AKCG3/UnBOd8O2uS6vvbh9w5MQnyTACeNQhH R8qbh+lnpJFDPoDG/YM+Wzs= =qS1N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0nmr0011Ndgn+RmsPbpZ--
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